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(I know this is... beating a dead dog; but...)
All the other posts have been focused on Adobe killing their Flash plugins for all the different browsers.
My question is about the CODECs for *.flv files.
Does Adobe have a kill switch for their CODEC???
[i.e. In my OLD... archives; I have a large collection of *.flv videos, which I want to convert to *.mp4 and I am wondering how long I have to do these conversions]
P.S. In 2006-2015, I was a computer tech doing updates on 300+ PCs. And Adobe was always coming out with a new revision of flash; and killing the previous one, because it was vulnerable!
They must have some really crappy programmers to have that many holes in their software!
Flash is not a CODEC. Flash Player is a plug-in for browsers. There is also Flash Projector, used to read and display standalone files. Report is that both of these things will reach end of life, and then will time bomb. Adobe may chip in to offer additional info and thank you for your compliments.
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Flash is not a CODEC. Flash Player is a plug-in for browsers. There is also Flash Projector, used to read and display standalone files. Report is that both of these things will reach end of life, and then will time bomb. Adobe may chip in to offer additional info and thank you for your compliments.
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Yeah, I would convert these now. Flash Player is not a codec, but a lot of video players (VLC, Real Player, etc.) and converters use the Flash Player on the local system to play back .flv. (FLV itself is a wrapper format, and there were a number of historical Codecs like On2 and Sorenson VP6 that Flash supported over the years). Applications depending on the system Flash to play or decode FLV are going to break when Flash goes EOL.
I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head, but I think you can can batch convert FLV using Adobe Media Encoder, which is really convenient for doing large batch conversions (I'm usually working with GoPro videos...). Hopefully it's as easy as setting up the job on a Friday and just letting it run for the weekend.
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I am incredulous, but considering it's Adobe, not surprised, that there is no direct answer to your key question: How to convert FLV files to a format such as MP4, even after the EOL date. I've read Adobe's FAQs. Astonishing that they do not include this obvious concern.
In the past month since these posts, has anyone succeeded in converting a lot of FLV files to a widely supported format (I would want MP4), and if Adobe Media Encoder is the best solution, will it be free and available past 2020?
I see that the Media Encoder page is titled, "Free Media Encoder | Download free Adobe Media Encoder trial." I'll give it a try, but no way I'll finish by January 10, and nowhere on Adobe's product pages do I see the word "Free," just "Trial."
Clarification, please?
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Follow-up:
Good luck!
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Try looking into VLC to play flv files.
Also tell people about ruffle.rs
Its going to let sites use swf after 2020. Also this... https://community.adobe.com/t5/flash-player/psa-playing-flash-after-2020/td-p/11716613