The Flash Video format is a video format defined by Adobe Systems. Flash Video has been accepted as the default online video format by many sites. Notable users of it include YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers. Flash Video is viewable on most operating systems except iOS, via the Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin or one of several third-party programs.
Flash Video FLV files contain video bit streams which are a proprietary variant of the H.263 video standard, under the name of Sorenson Spark (FourCC FLV1). Sorenson Spark is an older codec for FLV files but it is also a widely available and compatible one, because it was the first video codec supported in Flash Player. The Flash Video FLV file format supports two versions of a so called 'screenshare' (Screen video) codec which is an encoding format designed for screencasts. Both these formats are bitmap tile based, can be lossy by reducing color depths and are compressed using zlib. The second version is only playable in Flash Player 8 and newer - Audio in Flash Video files is usually encoded as MP3. However, audio in Flash Video FLV files recorded from the user's microphone use the proprietary Nellymoser Asao Codec. FLV files also support uncompressed audio or ADPCM format audio.
Associated programs
FFDShow Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery Viewer VideoLAN VLC Media Player Windows Media Player
Using Zamzar it is possible to convert FLV files to a variety of other formats:
flv to 3gp (3GPP Multimedia File) flv to 3g2 (3GPP2 Multimedia File) flv to aac (Advanced Audio Coding File) flv to ac3 (AC3 Audio File) flv to avi (Windows video file) flv to flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec) flv to gif (Compuserve graphics interchange) flv to ipad (MPEG-4 (H264) Video File) flv to iphone (MPEG-4 (H264) Video File) flv to ipod (MPEG-4 Video File) flv to mp3 (Compressed audio file) flv to mov (Apple QuickTime Movie) flv to mp4 (MPEG-4 Video File) flv to mpg (Moving Picture Experts Group File) flv to ogg (Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File) flv to wav (Windows audio file) flv to webm (Multimedia Container Format) flv to wmv (Windows Media Video)
WAV (WAVE) files are audio files playable via multimedia playback software such as Windows Media Player and other software available for your operating system. These files contain any sounds such as sound effects, music or spoken words. WAV files are large in size and with the advent of MP3 and MP4 WAV files are becoming less popular and less common. They were created and developed by IBM and Microsoft but unlike MP3 and MP4 the WAV file format does not use a form of lossy compression so file sizes are therefore much bigger and now less popular.
Wav files are the standard digital audio format in Windows. Using the .WAV file extension, 8- or 16-bit samples can be taken at rates of 11,025 Hz, 22,050 Hz and 44,100 Hz. The highest quality being th 16-bit at 44,100 HZ, this highest level is the sampling rate of an audio CD and uses 88KB of storage per second. All general sounds in Windows, such as when you log in, are in the .WAV format. The default content of a WAV file is uncompressed (although they can be used to store compressed formats such as MP3), pulse code modulated (PCM) digital samples derived from the analog source.
Associated programs
CyberLink PowerDirector Microsoft Windows Media Player Roxio Creator 2009
