Zaalabs yesterday announced the release of an opensource library, written using Alchemy, which will allow swf to load at runtime more than 40 different image formats ( you will have access to the bitmapdata of the loaded file ).

More Info:Zaalabs
Download:ZaaIL

Supported Formats

• Blizzard game textures – .blp
• Windows Bitmap – .bmp
• Multi-PCX – .dcx
• DirectDraw Surface – .dds
• Dicom – .dicom, .dcm
• Flexible Image Transport System – .fits, .fit
• Graphics Interchange Format – .gif
• Radiance High Dynamic – .hdr
• Macintosh icon – .icns
• Windows icon/cursor – .ico, .cur
• Interchange File Format – .iff
• Interlaced Bitmap – .lbm, .ilbm
• Infinity Ward Image (doesn’t work with MW2 iwi files) – .iwi
• Jpeg – .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg
• Jpeg 2000 – .jp2
• Homeworld texture – .lif
• Half-Life Model – .mdl
• MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (Amazon MP3s work, Apple’s do not) – .mp3
• Kodak PhotoCD – .pcd
• ZSoft PCX – .pcx
• Softimage PIC – .pic
• Alias | Wavefront – .pix
• Portable Network Graphics – .png
• Portable Anymap – .pbm, .pgm, .pnm, .pnm
• Adobe PhotoShop – .psd
• PaintShop Pro – .psp
• Pixar – .pxr
• Raw data – .raw
• Homeworld 2 Texture – .rot
• Silicon Graphics – .sgi, .bw, .rgb, .rgba
• Sun Microsystems, .sun
• Creative Assembly Texture – .texture
• Truevision Targa – .tga
• Tagged Image File Format – .tif
• Gamecube Texture – .tpl
• Unreal Texture – .utx
• Valve Texture Format – .vtf
• Game Archive – .wad
• Quake 2 Texture – .wal
• Wireless Bitmap File Format – .wbmp
• HD Photo – .wdp, .hdp
• X Pixel Map – .xpm
• Doom Graphics