Can someone help me with this?

This would be cool I think, there is an issue with having swf in databases though I believe.

on my test board, i did a bit of modification such that when attachment display images is enabled it will open the swf movie attached in the thread.

example: http://66.78.33.178/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1833

Now it does show, however as it is loaded from the mysql, it does not know the width and height of the flash, and as such it defaults to a certain size, i believe this is something to do with the plugin, as i was told by a user that on Mac the attached flash defaults to 5x5, or 50x50 .. one of those..

Yes I can see that being an issue, unless we specidy a fixed width for all swf avatars, like 50x50 or whatever size limit you use.
That way users should make their movies according to that size!

perhaps if we kept all avatars as files, even the user uploaded ones, then we would not have this problem

By the way, the function GetImagiSize can get the size of a swf file as well ;)

from php.net

oh cool
i'll have to look into vb's uploading avatar code to see if i can get this to work with displaying flash attachments