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  H264 in Flash Wrapper?

  Posted by Thomas Morter-laing on January 25, 2011 at 10:41 am

  Hey everyone, so Ive asked about this before and Im sure it cant be that complicated, but I need to make sure it works because its for a few clients. H264 is obviously far quicker encoding than literally re-encoding an export from FCP to FLV. So what I want is to be able to “wrap” an H264 movie in an flv (or flash player compatible) wrapper. How do I do this?
  Thanks!

  😀
  Tom Morter-Laing
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  Olin Padilla replied 15 years, 3 months ago 12 Members · 18 Replies
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  Jason Brown

  January 25, 2011 at 12:13 pm

  Following thread…
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  Dave Farrants

  January 25, 2011 at 12:49 pm

  Just change the .mov extension to .flv
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  Rafael Amador

  January 25, 2011 at 1:05 pm

  [Dave Farrants] “Just change the .mov extension to .flv”
  Right.
  “.f4v” extension works too (https://www.adobe.com/devnet/f4v.html), and probably “.m4v” too.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 25, 2011 at 2:42 pm

  Hey Jason

  This is OT, but in the grey box at the top of the page, you can hit the “subscribe” link to follow any thread you please. 🙂

  Jeremy
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  Michael Kammes

  January 25, 2011 at 3:13 pm

  Hey Thomas-

  You may want to read up on Flash Video. Over the past few years, Flash Video (v9 and above) has supported H.264 – i.e. the ‘essence’ of the FLV video can actually be an h.264 encoded file.

  Renaming the files (as mentioned above) is one way, or, simply using an up to date encoder (Adobe Media Encoder, Telestream Episode, for example) are other avenues to pursue.

  ~Michael

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  Jason Brown

  January 25, 2011 at 3:27 pm

  I’ve always wondered this! Thanks!

  -Jason 🙂
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  Greg Ondera

  January 25, 2011 at 3:42 pm

  Possibly the reason you’re finding encoding to Flash slow, is because your encoder is slow?

  Greg Ondera
  http://www.Plexus.tv
  http://www.SurgeonToday.org
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  Miriam Lefkowitz

  January 25, 2011 at 4:06 pm

  I have a client who requires the same thing – H.264 wrapped in flash. Just changing the extension was not an option because of their website programming. They needed a flash file. I used Adobe Flash Encoder. It was very easy to use and inexpensive since we already had the program.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 25, 2011 at 4:14 pm

  [Miriam Lefkowitz] “I have a client who requires the same thing – H.264 wrapped in flash. Just changing the extension was not an option because of their website programming.”

  That’s the thing. Some people have older versions of Flash and don’t support the m4v.

  Jeremy
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm

  I’ve heard that Adobe is making noises about this procedure, saying it should not be used, as it may be broken by future development. Part of an Apple/Adobe tit for tat war? Maybe.

  All the best,

  Tom

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