On 31 Jan 2008, at 17:50, Charles wrote:
If it's that the SWF references a FLV, QuickTime Movies have been
able to
reference media pretty much forever, and when you embed an ASX with
references with Windows Media content, you're still embedding video
even
though the metafile happens to be a text file.
Whereas it is possible to get the video from a QuickTime container, it
is not possible to get a FLV from a SWF, making it impossible to
directly control the video. The video element exists to contain
container formats (of which Flash is not one, though FLV is), and
nothing else. Inserting a Flash file into a video element is similar
to inserting an HTML file that happens to have a link to video: sure,
it links to a video, but it does a billion other things too — it isn't
in itself the video.
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