Short Flash Question?

[Trax]

Lets say I have a 5MB wmv video with sound and I wanna encode it to Flash is it normal that the final swf is 25MB big?

Also what is the difference between a FLV and a SWF?
I wanna put a video online... i thought flash would make it smaller... donno why i had the impression... am I wrong?

Thx

[onno]

use kibisis http://www.kibisis.com/kibisis/index.asp i used, it works fine and its really easy to use and i never had really big movies... you can play a lot with the video quality, sound and size

there are more softwaare like that,,, search on google for video to flash encoders or something similar