So before we do that, let's take brief look at creating FLVs.Ĭreating an FLV begins with a piece of video footage in a non-linear editor (NLE), such as Final Cut, Avid, or Premiere. This means in the case of viewing Flash Web pages, we have to load our FLV into a SWF file for it to work.

It's a video format that only Flash can understand, and therefore it can only be viewed through Flash. We're going to deliberately avoid most of the automatic features the Flash comes with in setting up video for the sake of clarity and minimization of future headaches.įirst and foremost, an FLV by itself is nothing. What follows is a method that should give you a basic handle on what is involved, and hopefully give you ideas on how you can customize it to your own preferences. Note that this is different from actually embedding or 'hard coding' an FLV inside a SWF.

There are many ways to dynamically load a Flash video file (FLV) from an external location into a Flash interface.

Be sure to leave empty space on your stage for it. Your skin will not appear on the stage if using an absolute URL.

Flv vs swf