Read more about it here
I haven’t had the time to clean up the source code, so for now you can download the SWF and some other stuff in a ZIP
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.Update #3: Subtitle: “How can I make FLV with freeware / opensource software” or “How can I make FLV for free!”
For creating FLV I use Macromedia Flash 8 Video Encoder. I use it professionally (it’s part of Flash 8 Professional) but I understand that not everybody is able to get hold of this program.
You can use Riva FLV Encoder. This freeware program can be use to encode AVI, MPEG, Quicktime and WMV to FLV.
The same company also has a free Riva FLV Player which yoube used to play your FLV files.
Update #4: A program similar to Riva FLV Encoder is FLV Encoder from Digitalgroover.
It’s easy to use but for some reason I can’t get it to work with my computer at home (“Fail to transcode file!”), it works fine with the computer at work.
It’s freeware and they also have a FLV Player which is able to view and repair MetaData.
You can also use the FLV Player by Martijn de Visser for playing FLV.
Both FLV players come with their own installer so you can associate FLV files with one of these programs.
Update #2: VLC media player can also play FLV (and many more) but it seems to be an undocumented feature. And for some reason it doesn’t play all FLV files.
And of course you should use my FLV player for playing video on your site.
For some time I’ve been wanting to build a Flash video player, that’s easy to use in html, but can also be used in other Flash (OOP) projects.
After some research I came to the conclusion that enough people (http://www.flvplayer.com/) have already created their version of this… and also particularly good!
But that’s OK: as a good Dutch friend of mine once said:
With this in mind, I made MY version of a flv-player: