SWF is short for Shockwave Flash that is widely used for broadcasting videos on the Internet. You can download the video under the permission of its owner. These videos are mostly saved with extension name “.swf”, and you can convert frames of the SWF videos to BMP images with SWF to BMP Converter Command Line.

VeryDOC SWF to BMP Converter Command Line is a tool designed for converting frames of SWF to BMP images. It is free for evaluation and you can download it via clicking here. It is instantly runnable after it is unpacked into your disk. This application is only MS-DOS interface supported and you have to open a MS-DOS command prompt window before running it.

On your keyboard, press and hold “Window” key and press “R”, input “cmd” in the popup dialog of “Run”, press [OK] button, and then you have opened a MS-DOS command prompt window. In the default current directory of the command prompt window, you have to use the full path of SWF to BMP Converter Command Line to call the application. For simple use, you can change the current directory of the command prompt window to the one where the converter is saved.

The following command line is an example for converting SWF to BMP,
>swf2img.exe -in a.swf -out exa.bmp .

In the command line, "swf2img.exe" is the name of the executable file of the application, option "-in" specifies the name of the source file, "a.swf", "-out" specifies a name for saving the converted BMP images, "exa.bmp". The converted images will be saved with names like "exa0001.bmp", "exa0002.bmp"…

The next screen snapshot shows a command prompt window used for converting SWF to BMP.

SWF to BMP Converter Command Line is designed for MS-DOS interface use and it natively supports being called via a batch script. So you can run it on a server for batch processing. If you need run a copy of the application on a server, please buy a server license. Meanwhile, this application is guaranteed for being redistributed within a third-party software package with a developer license.