Posted by Neredbojias on 09/20/07 17:31

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:58:22
GMT SpaceGirl scribed:

>> Recently I accidently ran-across a new type Flash video which took my
>> fancy, so I transferred it to my 'puter. It was an .flv file, I
>> believe. Anyway, the damn thing refused to run no matter what I did,
>> making it virtually worthless to me and all my progeny. Ergo, my
>> statement, and furthermore, if your idea of the future is things that
>> don't work, I can see why you wear diapers.

> Well you can't play MPEG movies, or AVI's, or WMVs without the correct
> player either... open source or otherwise, you need the a player of
> some sort to view them. Jpeg requires something that can display
> jpegs. Flash Video (FLV) is no different. Also Flash Video can be
> encoded without paying a penny to Adobe. There are actually several
> open source FLV players (google it), so just download one. The same
> way you'd download the DIVX codec to watch the vast majority of
> downloadable (non-streamed) videos, which are DIVX encoded.

Really? I was under the impression that Flash Video (FLV) files were
playable in Flash 9, which I have. If it takes a certain player to play
them, I guess that's not too bad then. A little confusing, though.

> The only thing that is not open is Adobe's own Flash Player, but
> that's no big deal.

Perhaps that's why it doesn't play. I dunno...

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Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.

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