Flash Video is a container extendable used to deliver video on the internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. The two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The car stereo data within FLV files are encoded in much the same as they are within SWF files. The F4V file format is based on the ISO base media extendable which is you start with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and currently put together by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally put together by Macromedia.

 

Flash Video is currently the de facto standard for web-based streaming video (over RTMP). Notable users than it include YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.

 

The standards documentation for BBC Online states that the BBC now preferentially accepts Flash videos for submission, towards disadvantage of other formats previously available on its sites for instance RealVideo or WMV.

 

Flash Video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs following a Sorenson Spark or VP6 video compression formats. The latest public releases of Flash Player (collaboration between Adobe Systems and MainConcept) also support H.264 video and HE-AAC audio. Most of these compression formats are restricted by patents.

 

Flash Video (FLV, F4V) is really a container extendable utilized to deliver video on the internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6-11. Flash Video content will also be embedded within SWF files. There's two different video file formats referred to as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same manner as is also within SWF files. The latter F4V extendable is based on the ISO base media extendable and is supported beginning with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and currently manufactured by Adobe Systems.

 

Supported Media Types in FLV File Extendable:

Video: On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark (Sorenson H.263), Screen video, H.264

Audio: MP3, ADPCM, Linear PCM, Nellymoser, Speex, AAC, G.711 (avaliable for internal use)

Supported Media Types in F4V Tile Format:

Video: H.264

Images (still frame of video data): GIF, PNG, JPEG

Audio: AAC, HE-AAC, MP3 to any re-encoding or quality loss.