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Originally Posted by Dark Shikari
Why?
Adobe themselves recommends MP4 for flash videos and has declared FLV to be deprecated.
You can mux to FLV if you want with ffmpeg, but it isn't recommended.
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There's still a lot of folks making FLV. For all the "Flash has 98% penetration" claims Flash 10 penetraion is well below that. FLV works in Flash 8+, and so has a longer tail, particularly in the enterprise.
It is also asserted, although I haven't seen any actual numbers to back this up, that the low-complexity VP6-E version is easier to decode on older machines than H.264, even baseline profile. That said, I'm not sure if theyr'e comparing at equal bitrate or equal quality; I'd think a good Baseline encode would be quite a bit more efficient, saving some CPU in lower bandwidth at the same quality.
That said, I certainly look forward to the Flash ecosystem largely using H.264; it'll make their eventual migration to Silverlight that much easier
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