Question
SWF or FLV
Few things make me feel stupid but this is starting to. I
have an Adobe Media Server fully configured and ready to use.
This is my question: I have both videos and tutorials. I have created my tutorials using Adobe Captive 3, videos are created from many outside sources.
My Adobe Captive and Adobe Flash Pro create only SWF files. So why do I have a Media Server? The point is that I have a large population that accesses my site daily. My site has a max capacity of 10M up and down. The SWF files are very large and I do not want the user do have to down load the whole file before viewing it. I also do not want to use bandwidth to down load a tutorial that was not fully viewed.
My media server only serves up FLV files. So what is Adobe thinking? I can convert the SWF files to FLV “not using an Adobe product”.
So to ask a stupid question: Should I be converting my SWF files to FLV? And if not why?
Thanks in advance.
From A long time web developer and database integrator feeling a little stupid.
This is my question: I have both videos and tutorials. I have created my tutorials using Adobe Captive 3, videos are created from many outside sources.
My Adobe Captive and Adobe Flash Pro create only SWF files. So why do I have a Media Server? The point is that I have a large population that accesses my site daily. My site has a max capacity of 10M up and down. The SWF files are very large and I do not want the user do have to down load the whole file before viewing it. I also do not want to use bandwidth to down load a tutorial that was not fully viewed.
My media server only serves up FLV files. So what is Adobe thinking? I can convert the SWF files to FLV “not using an Adobe product”.
So to ask a stupid question: Should I be converting my SWF files to FLV? And if not why?
Thanks in advance.
From A long time web developer and database integrator feeling a little stupid.
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