Re: FLV files

Sogn Mill-Scout <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.opera.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
        
At 12:31 PM, 3/15/2009, Sunday, Andrew Gregory wrote:

>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.
        
        
Thanks, Andrew. I'll look into that.
        
- Sogn
        
Sogn Mill-Scout
Corvallis, OR
[email protected]
        

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