H264 in Flash Wrapper?

[Rafael Amador]

That’s right.
No problem about Video or Audio, but there are differences on how both files are “Prepared for Internet Streaming..”.
If you just gonna hang some clips on a web site, probably is not a big issue; for other services may be a NO-NO.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jeremy Allen]

Somebody please correct me if Im wrong, but I think the short answer is that you can’t wrap an h264 into an flv.

Flash video players will play H264 material, but the player has to be coded to accept the h264. So you either need to have a custom-coded player developed for you or use something like this: https://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-player-now/ ,which happens to be the most versatile and robust player on the market right now. It also features an HTML5 video feature, so the videos will also play on iPhone, iPad, etc..

Hope this helps!

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[Tom Wolsky]

Any recent Flash player om the web seems to have no problem with it, since v9 I think.

All the best,

Tom

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[Chris Borjis]

wow jeremy thanks for that one.

[Rafael Amador]

QT Player don’t work with H264.flw and FLASH does the same with H264.mov.
JW Player plays both.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jason Brown]

Hey Jeremy,

This isn’t working on my mobile, the mobi site is missing this function…how do I get a feature request to Ron?! 🙂

[Jeremy Garchow]

Two options:

1) click the classic cow button at the bottom of the page, then find your way to the subscribe link

2) Leave feedback to Abraham here: https://forums.creativecow.net/cowcowmunications

[Olin Padilla]

As someone stated before, .f4v is h.264 in a flash wrapper. In my experience, it gives me better quality/lower file sizes then .flv conversion, but the developers I work with always say it won’t work. When I ask why, they just say it doesn’t work. They are not video experts.

Most streaming h.264 videos (read: Youtube) are actually h.264 .mp4s embedded in an .swf. This setup works pretty much every version of flash.

Again, you are dealing with developers, and whatever version of flash the viewer has.

Either way, I would start with a QT encode, and then convert to flash via Adobe Media Encoder (or whatever). It requires the computer to do less simultaneous tasks, and who knows when you’re going to need that full quality mov in the future.