FLVPlayback control confusion!

[Guest]

Hi all please go through the link below

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/flvplayback_component/

It says FlvPlayback control can support MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2 but none of these formats are actually played in FLVPLayback control.

can any body please explain me what the link above is trying to say. I am a bit confused...

[Colin Holgate]

If you mean it doesn't work in Flash authoring, it didn't originally in Flash 9, that came with an update. I think the application should be version 9.0.0.494. For testing with Flash Player, set up an FLVPlayback component, and then with ActionScript set its source to be the video file, and that should work.

[Guest]

I am using following environment

Windows XP with SP2

Flash CS3 9.0

Flash Player version 10.0.22.87

IE 7.0

By version 9.0.0.494 you Flash CS3 version or the flash player version?

Is there a freee update available or I will have to buy this udate separately? If it is availble for free can you redirect me to the link?

Thanks a lot for your reply I was going nuts on this.... Now at least I have a direction to seearch on....

[Guest]

Can the following types be played in FLVPlayback control??

MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2

[Guest]

Can some body update me as What all types FLVPlayback control in Flash can play??

I have stated my environment in the post above.

[4744985Dorner]

Those formats are supported. However, there's a difference between the format and the encode method. For example, most video editing software offers potentially dozens of encoding methods. So you want to look specifically for the H.264 encoding.

Then you can save the file in any of th formats listed by Adobe (MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2). Though, in my experience FLV offers the best quality at the smallest file size. Just make sure you're not resizing the video in Adobe's FLV Encoder, because that will ruin the quality.

Hope that helps

~Dan

[kkundan · Accepted solution]

Hello Swapnil,

These formats are supported now, but it must be H.264 encoded.