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The following topics address some special issues for working
with FLV files.
About configuring FLV files for hosting on a server
When you work with FLV files,
you might have to configure your server to work with the FLV file
format. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standardized
data specification that lets you send non-ASCII files over Internet connections.
Web browsers and e-mail clients are configured to interpret numerous
MIME types so that they can send and receive video, audio, graphics, and
formatted text. To load FLV files from a web server, you might need
to register the file extension and MIME type with your web server,
so you should check your web server documentation. The MIME type
for FLV files is
video/x-flv
. The full information
for the FLV file type is as follows:
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Mime Type: video/x-flv
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File extension: .flv
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Required parameters: none
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Optional parameters: none
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Encoding considerations: FLV files are binary files; some
applications might require the application/octet-stream subtype
to be set
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Security issues: none
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Published specification:
www.adobe.com/go/video_file_format
Microsoft changed the way streaming media is handled in Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 web server from earlier
versions. Earlier versions of IIS do not require any modification
to stream Flash Video. In IIS 6.0, the default web server that comes
with Windows 2003, the server requires a MIME type to recognize
that FLV files are streaming media.
When SWF files that stream external FLV files are placed on Microsoft
Windows Server® 2003 and are viewed in a
browser, the SWF file plays correctly, but the FLV video does not
stream. This issue affects all FLV files placed on Windows Server 2003,
including files you make with earlier versions of the Flash authoring
tool, and the Macromedia Flash Video Kit for Dreamweaver MX 2004
from Adobe. These files work correctly if you test them on other
operating systems.
For information about configuring Microsoft Windows 2003 and
Microsoft IIS Server 6.0 to stream FLV video, see
www.adobe.com/go/tn_19439
.
About targeting local FLV files on the Macintosh
If
you attempt to play a local FLV from a non-system drive on an Apple® Macintosh® computer
by using a path that uses a relative slash (/), the video will not
play. Non-system drives include, but are not limited to, CD-ROMs,
partitioned hard disks, removable storage media, and connected storage
devices.
Note:
The reason for this failure is a limitation
of the operating system, not a limitation in Flash Player or AIR.
For an FLV file to play from a non-system drive on a Macintosh,
refer to it with an absolute path using a colon-based notation (:)
rather than slash-based notation (/). The following list shows the
difference in the two kinds of notation:
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