Posted by SpaceGirl on 09/20/07 17:45

Neredbojias wrote:
> 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.

They are, if wrapped in a video player written inside Flash9. Flash 9 is
a Virtual Machine... it runs compiled code (AS3 and AS2), and has all
the mechanisms internally for all kinds of multimedia (including FLV
playback). Flash 9 on it's own does nothing at all. You need to load
something into it, such as a SWF containing a video player. This is how
the likes of YouTube works. They have their own little video player,
written in AS, that runs inside the Flash VM and loads & plays FLVs.

>> 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...

Dunno either.

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