Flash Video Expose

DISCLAIMER: THE APP PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ADOBE FLASH. THIS APP CANNOT PLAY FLASH CONTENT.

THE WEB BROWSER IN APP CANNOT SHOW FLASH CONTENT TOO.

THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION IS MERELY INFORMATION ABOUT FLASH VIDEO.

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. The latter F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is supported starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and currently developed by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally developed by Macromedia.

The standards documentation for B.B.C Online states that the B.B.C now preferentially accepts Flash videos for submission, to the disadvantage of other formats previously in use on its sites such as RealVideo or WMV.

Flash Video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs following the Sorenson Spark or VP6 video compression formats. The most recent public releases of Flash Player also support H.264 video and HE-AAC audio. All of these codecs are currently restricted by patents.