[MEncoder-users] mov to swf, mission impossible?

[RC]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 23:44:25 +1000
Barbara Maren Winkler-Wolff <barbara at wolffh.de> wrote:

> There is a significant difference between myVideo.swf and myVideo.flv,
>  
> namely, my browser with the Flash plugin will read myVideo.swf, and  
> not myVideo.flv. When Firefox (3.0) encounters myVideo.flv in  
> something like
> 
> <object data="myVideo.flv" type="video/x-flv"  width="640"
> height="400">
>    <param name="src" value="myVideo.flv">
> </object>
> , it offers me to find the appropriate plugin, but doesn't find it  
> ("Unknown plugin (video/x-flv)")... that's no good.

FLV doesn't work like you believe it does.  You can't just embed it in a
web page and expect it to work.  Your confusion between SWF and FLV is
evidence of this.

Mencoder is likely generating a perfectly good file.


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