About Flash Video
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows , movies , etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. 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 manner as they are within SWF files. The F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. [1] [2] Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and developed by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally developed by Macromedia . In the early 2000s, Flash Video used to be the de facto standard for web-based streaming video (over RTMP ). Notable users of it include Hulu , VEVO , Yahoo! Video , metacafe , Reuters.com , and many other news providers. Flash Video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs following the Sorens