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About using FLV video 623
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:
Mime Type: video/x-flv
File extension: .flv
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding considerations: FLV files are binary files; some applications might require the
application/octet-stream subtype to be set.
Security issues: none
Published specification: www.macromedia.com/go/flashfileformat .
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 a Microsoft Windows 2003
server 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 2003 server, including files you
make with earlier versions of the Flash authoring tool, the Macromedia Flash Video Kit
for Dreamweaver MX 2004. 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.macromedia.com/go/tn_19439 .