Encoding to F4V?

Question

My client would like to use a Flash Player to view H264 video.

I have not yet purchased the Pro version of EE4 as I do not know whether I can do this with EE.

When transcoding to H264 what wrapper is it put in? Will that be compatible with Flash? Can I just rename the file to *.F4V?

Many thanks,

Jason

 

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JasonBSteele

Answer 1

Adobe's website has this to say:  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html

Supported file formats

Flash Player 9 Update 3 plays files derived from the standard MPEG-4 container format that contain H.264 video and/or HE-AAC audio, such as F4V, MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2. One thing to note is that protected MP4 files, such as those downloaded from iTunes or digitally encrypted by FairPlay, are not supported. For a full list of codecs supported by Flash Player, read the TechNote about it.

Based on that -- I don't think that to F4V is technically required by the Flash Player.

Answer 2

In other words, you can encode in MP4/H.264 with Expression Encoder with Flash compatible settings and it should just work.

It makes very little sense for a Silverlight-based Microsoft product to license Flash encoding technology from Adobe, so I doubt we'll ever support encoding in F4V and FLV.

Answer 3

Many thanks for these answers Randy and Eric. I'll take the plunge and purchase the Pro version in the hope that everything will be just fine :)

 

(Randy, I get a 404 for the Technote link)

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JasonBSteele

Answer 4

Give this a try: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402866.html