Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos (Flash TechNote)

Posted on June 15, 2006 | 4 comments

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.

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  • http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/kfra Francesco Meani

    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

  • BikrDotNet

    Just an fyi.. “making this change with every rollout” Why don’t you just fix your roll out image and be done with it.. ?

  • http://www.renaun.com Renaun Erickson

    which i had the option of a roll out image. We have boxes from different ISP’s all over the place.

  • Mark Peskir

    I really wish I had seen this – or any similarly titled – article about a week ago. My forehead has started leaving a pretty sizable mark on the brick wall I’ve been beating it against. I was sure it was my code, or the firewall, or the third party control I was using to play the video. Thank you!!!!!!!