Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos (Flash TechNote)
June 15th, 2006
I am posting about this old issue because of the number of times I have to fix this problem.
Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here.
In the Adobe tech note it tells you to use “flv-application/octet-stream”. This will work but if for some case it doesn’t there is another mime-type that browsers recognize and that is “video/x-flv”.
More links on the subject:
Adding .FLV MIME Type in IIS
We shouldn’t have to go through this for every Windows Server 2003 deployment. Maybe the new wide spread usage of the flv format will make it a default some day.
Entry Filed under: Flash Media Server/Flash Video, General
3 Comments Add your own
1. Francesco Meani | 2006-10-08 at 8.02 am
You can also have a look to this “FLV Flash video streaming with ASP.NET 2.0 / IIS and HTTP handler”
“http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/kfra/archive/2006/10/04/50003.aspx
2. BikrDotNet | 2007-03-02 at 2.41 pm
Just an fyi.. “making this change with every rollout” Why don’t you just fix your roll out image and be done with it.. ?
3. Renaun Erickson | 2007-03-02 at 2.43 pm
which i had the option of a roll out image. We have boxes from different ISP’s all over the place.
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