Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote: > About flash, the flash plugin version 7 is minimum required to read .flv or > something like this. The version 7 is still beta with most unix > distributions. Some small datapoints here: -- Adobe Flash Player 6+ support Sorenson video codec. (NPD audit 97% consumer viewability, April 2006.) -- Adobe Flash Player 8+ also support On2 ("Duck") codec. (70% consumer viewability, April 2006.) -- Adobe Flash Player for Linux is at v7 (not beta), with v9 expected towards the turn of the year. (v9 for Mac & Win were released last month.) References: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/05/yes_virginia_th.cfm For the original request on *streaming* video, as opposed to download'n'play or progressive play, Chris Hock has an overview: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_download.html (For long videos you might want a server for best viewing experience; for shorter videos you have more options, more play.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.