Converting Macromedia/sup /spl reg// Flash/sup TM/ Shockwave/sup /spl reg// to MPEG-4 BIFS

We present a process for converting the Macromedia/sup /spl reg// Flash/sup TM/ Shockwave/sup /spl reg// file (SWF) format into MPEG-4 BIFS syntax. In recent years, Flash (one of Macromedia's products) has become very popular among content developers to create streaming two-dimensional (2D) animation and vector graphics over the Internet. By transcoding the multimedia content from SWF into MPEG-4 binary format for scenes (BIFS) and further enhancing the content with streaming video and audio, content creators can painlessly produce MPEG-4 content without learning any new content development tools.