How to Put a Flash Video on Your Web Site
FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet via Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9.Recently FLV video format is the preferred and most popular video format for web video delivering. A number of notable Websites, such as YouTube, Google video and Reuters, use FLV format. FLV video is supported by all popular browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera…) and viewable on different operating systems (MacOS, Windows, and Linux). You just need a SWF file working as a media player with screen and playback controls, and embed Flash video in (or link it to) the SWF player to display the video on your web page.