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How Popular is FLV format?

How Popular is FLV format?

StanKnight	11 Jun, 2009 - 02:48 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Apr, 2009 Posts: 23 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Hi everyone, Maybe someone can help me with this part of a project that I'm working on. It'll be a movie player similar to YouTube. I am building it in Flash and was curious as to how popular is the FLV format now? Can just about everyone convert their movies to FLV now with ease? I would like to make it as easy as possible for people to use. And is there anyway of Flash playing other file formats such as MOV, WMV, AVI, etc? As of right now I only know it can play FLV. Am I mislead there or is FLV they only movie format that can be played in Flash? I would appreciate any help here thanks -- Stan
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Core	RE: How Popular Is FLV Format? 11 Jun, 2009 - 02:54 PM Post #2
Den The Developer Joined: 8 Dec, 2008 Posts: 2,944 Thanked: 214 times Dream Kudos: 900 Expert In: C#, VB.NET, .NET Framework My Contributions	Well most of the online video web-sites (if not pretty much every site) are using FLV as the standard for streaming the video to the end-user. For example, such services as YouTube allow you to upload AVI and MOV videos, but those are later converted to FLV. So yes, as far as I know you will need FLV. Just on a side note, to play other formats online, you will have to embed them in the web page. You can take a look here for some quick info on this and embedding code.
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StanKnight	RE: How Popular Is FLV Format? 11 Jun, 2009 - 05:35 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Apr, 2009 Posts: 23 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Hey Core, Thanks for the reply. So ok you answered most of my question so very appreciated. Is there a dynamic way of creating FlV from AVI then? Can I program a flash script or java applet to do this for me? Any if so, could you point me in the right direction for that information? Thanks again for your help -- Stan
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StanKnight	RE: How Popular Is FLV Format? 11 Jun, 2009 - 07:05 PM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 14 Apr, 2009 Posts: 23 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	I did alot of googling and lucky for me I got a website that really helps. Thanks for your help Core. The following link is just for others who are needing this question answered: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ffmpeg_csharp.aspx Thanks all - Stan
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Core	RE: How Popular Is FLV Format? 11 Jun, 2009 - 07:09 PM Post #5
Den The Developer Joined: 8 Dec, 2008 Posts: 2,944 Thanked: 214 times Dream Kudos: 900 Expert In: C#, VB.NET, .NET Framework My Contributions	You'll have to take a look at FFMPEG. It offers the converting functionalities you need. The way I see it is that you have to install FFMPEG on your server, let the user upload the AVI/MOV file on the server, convert the file and then publish the FLV output. EDIT: Well I see that you already got the idea. Hope your project takes off!
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