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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i'd like to know whats the benefit of using flv when it's actually nothing else than mp4 with extra features that no one uses anyways.
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The only "MP4" Flash supports is H.264 in an MP4 container. Some people use "MP4" to mean MPEG-4, and Flash doesn't support that.
FLV is quite different from MPEG-4 and H.264. You use FLV when you want compatibility with versions of Flash Player prior to Version 9 Update 3 (also referred to as v9 r115). Anything earlier will not play H.264. Adobe does not volunteer penetration percentages for updates within versions, but in my experience, it's something like 10% of the general population that has a version prior to v9r115.