Posted by Neredbojias on 09/22/07 00:09

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:37:25
GMT SpaceGirl scribed:

>>> The Flash player has the ability to play an FLV, but you must have a
>>> video player in the SWF
>>
>> So...the .flv which packages the .swf which doesn't have a video
>> player is playable on Flash 9 but the .swf doesn't come thru because
>> it has no player. Wonderful. That's just peachy - what I always
>> wanted in my poor, humble life - something else that works like shit.
>>
>
> Grrr.
>
>
> Look, you cannot play an MPEG without a video player, right? Well you
> cannot play FLV without a video player either. Flash is not a video
> player - it's a virtual machine for running applications written in
> actionscript. While a video play can be written in Flash (it supports
> the codecs) it doesn't have a player right there read for you to use.
> No different than any other player.

Okay, and thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally, somebody said
something that makes sense. "Flash is _not_ a video player." _Now_ I
think I understand it: you need your own extra-Flash-9 player to play the
files on your own computer. Apparently web sites can embed or provide a
player "on the fly" so to speak.

See, that's the trouble with "discussing" something with someone like
Onideus. There may be some accurate little amoebas of truth in his
otherwise disdaining sputum, but there're so overwhelmed by the
extraneous ego-stroking effluvia that anything of value within is
obfuscated beyond redemption. He really is a sad little man, pudgy or
not, and the proof is right there in the sub-sig crap he persists in
posting.

> What you need in life is a less dismissive attitude.

I tried it once but dismissed it as ineffectual. :)

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

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