Re: Windows Media Player and Video's

Flash is a proprietary format (Macromedia Flash - now owned by Adobe I believe). The movies play in your browser when you have downloaded the flash plug-in.

A lot of the advertisements you see on web pages are flash based. I am guessing that certain web sites are "paid" to convert to flash. This way, the advertisements on all web sites are seen, even if you don't want to view them

It's a money making scheme. For a long time I resisted having flash on my computers but it almost seems that you can't avoid it any more. And some of those ads are quite annoying.

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"MikeW" <MikeW@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:L9CdnZCWT4Z-gxXYnZ2dnUVZ8s-qnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Windows XP Home
Windows Media Player 11

I currently use two video host sites to store video's for others to view and download. A couple of weeks ago one of the sites changed all my file extensions from wmv to flv. When I queried this I was sent the following e-mail.

Dear user,



These days we are converting all video formats to FLV (flash based) for the following reasons:



1. Flash video playback is supported on multiple platforms, unlike the other video formats This allows more people to view your file without needing plug-ins and players.

2. Videos played back in flash load faster, and start playback sooner than the other formats.

3. FLV format is the standard and most popular format today.






Today my other host site has e-mailed me to say that it is also changing to flv format.
The problem is that flv does not play in WMP. I have tried flv converters/players but the end results are very poor quality playbacks.

My question is....if flv format is as good as these sites say, (see 3 above) why does Windows Media Payer not support them?
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