On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
On Jan 2, 4:53 pm, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote:
Paul
Thanks, Paul.
I know how to drop the .flv into the .swf. That's not the issue.
First, there is a 16000 frame limit in .swf's. That's not horrible
at
18 fps.
But the big thing is that FLVs allow for progressive downloads and
bigger files.
I am regurgitating what I learned from here:
http://www.webvideozone.com/public/171.cfm
What that page seems to say to me is that you still have a swf file,
that swf then loads the flv and plays it - the user doesn't request
the flv directly.
Fred
Right. Neither browsers nor the Flash plugin can play FLV files
"bare", they must be wrapped in a SWF player skin, which provides at a
minimum the interface between the video data and the plugin, or more
commonly, an interface with player controls etc.
Modern browsers can play a <video> element directly which contains
MPEG-4 or other formats, and IIRC, FLV is a lightly-wrapped H264 video
"flavor". Maybe you want to transcode and skip Flash altogether.
You'll get a wider playback audience (including iDevices) and the
visitors will get dramatically better battery life/processor
performance in the bargain. If you really have to support legacy
browsers, you can add a fallback JavaScript layer to substitute your
FLV in a SWF player interface.
Walter
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