DistortionEffects in flash?

Has anyone had any success with using alex uhlmanns distortion effects in flash rather then flex? If you haven’t seen them they can be found here:

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/2007/03/distortion_effe.cfm#more

It looks like it uses some flex specific classes like mx.effects so I’m not really sure how this could be done.