Re: FLV files

"Andrew Gregory" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.general
Organization Southern Cross Software Solutions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:33:36 +0900, Sogn Mill-Scout <[email protected]> wrote:

> I notice that Opera temporarily stores videos, such as those on
> YouTube, in the cache4 folder with an .flv extension. When it
> temporarily stores audio (.mp3) files it retains the original
> .mp3 extension, which makes them usable in Windows Media
> Player. However WMP won't play an .flv video file. Am I correct in
> assuming that videos are stored on, say, YouTube as .flv (rather
> than, say, wmv), and that it's therefore not an Opera issue?

FLV files are Flash Video. WMP won't play them, you'll need a standalong  
Flash Player. They're around, I used to have one! I forget where I got it  
from, though. Google should turn up something.

HTH,
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Andrew Gregory <mailto:[email protected]>
<http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/>
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