The onslaught of high definition FLV

[JeanGoulet]

I don't know how AVI/MPG/WMV lost to FLV in the HD arena, but it's over. For a long time Youtube was a garbage dump of low-quality FLV videos, but it's changed so suddenly.

I refused, or at least resisted, viewing stuff on Youtube due to its frequent poor quality, given that excellent HD video sites like Vimeo were providing top notch stuff.

But now 720p and 1080p have become mainstream on Youtube, and on a long list of competitors, even Vimeo.

This means my list of downloaded 720p/1080p FLV files is growing, and I must say that it is quite unfortunate that Splash PRO is not able to play any of them at the current time. I had read in the forum somewhere about FLV being omitted from Splash due to it being "a low quality format" or something, but that reasoning sure needs to be updated!

[Nielo TM]

sometime FLV contains H.264 stream, in which case renaming the ext to .mp4 does the trick

[user82]

sometime FLV contains H.264 stream, in which case renaming the ext to .mp4 does the trick

old youtube downloader might name it flv, but actually i have not seen a single youtube-hd video that was not mp4 with h264 and aac!

[JeanGoulet]

sometime FLV contains H.264 stream, in which case renaming the ext to .mp4 does the trick

That would be great, if it were really that easy, the programmer would just need make Splash Pro accept a .FLV file and treat it as a .MP4 file. The end user is not the one who should need to know any of the details regarding the encoding and how to process it. The software just needs to play back video files properly!

[BDX]

sometime FLV contains H.264 stream, in which case renaming the ext to .mp4 does the trick

Doesn't work like this. Splash just doesn't handle FLV-container.

[HFS10dude]

All 720p or 1080p that I've downloaded since Youtube introduced HD have always been .mp4 (H.264,AAC) as mentioned by user82. It seems that 480p or less is still .flv, I don't waste my time with these anymore, hehe.

The only issue I have, is the low(ish) bitrate - usually 2to5 at best. I realise, this is to keep file sizes down and download speeds up etc.