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February 12, 2007
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Play various formats

  • February 12, 2007
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I want to make an application in which user can play any video files from its own. Either file is in .wmv format or .mpeg4, Flash playes it. Is it possible thru Flash or we need some backend scripting that can encode or convert video files to .flv file. I need some directions.

I would appreciate your valuable suggestions.
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    February 13, 2007
    You'll need a transcoding application (either client or server side) to convert the video to .flv before serving to to a flash client.

    If you want to do it on the server side, look into the following

    Flix Engine ( http://on2.com)
    FFMPEG (ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/)
    Turbine Engine ( http://www.blue-pacific.com/)