| willpops@gmail.com 2006-04-28, 3:42 am |
| If you want to upload flash video to website, maybe you should know
what the difference among .swf .fla and .flv are first.
..fla is to .swf as .psd is to .jpg.
The .fla file is the original huge working document that you make when
you make a flash animation. Ie: open Flash the program, start a new
document, do a bunch of stuff, save it. Then later you can open the
flash document -- saved in the .fla format and change things, keep
working, etc. Once you are ready to post to the web, you export a flash
movie, and create a .swf file. The .swf file is much smaller, more
efficient / compressed, etc. If for some reason you erased the original
..fla, and then wanted to make changes to the move, you'd be stuck. You
cannot open the .swf file that's been exported and make and changes to
the original -- you need the .fla file. There's nothing to do with a
..fla file on the web. It's just for working.
To browse the .swf linked in a webpage, you must wait for downloading
the entire content to the temp folder, then view the flash. The benefit
is that you just need to install a flash player and you can view it.
..flv is flash video file. It can be played in html (don't know if
they'll play just linked to directly). It can be streamed, as the
download-while-playing media. The problem with the .flv by itself is
that it doesn't really have a controller and must have to play with a
..flv player. You can right-click on the video and stop or rewind it.
Check out this and get a free .flv player.
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/vtf/vide...h-download.html
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