Why cannot I play a FLV video after it is uploaded to the Internet?

"FLV videos that can be played locally using flash media players cannot be uploaded to the Internet ."

In fact, the reason is very simple, because most of the hosts in China are win2003. The FLV format is not specified by default.

Although it can be seen in FTP, it cannot be accessed through HTTP and thus cannot be played.

Two solutions:
1. Find the server administrator and add FLV file type output support.
2. Change the extension FLV to SwF for playback.

3. Solve the problem that "virtual hosts do not support FLV files": for example, your FLV file name is. FLV, create a name named ". FLV directory. Place your FLV file in this directory and rename it index.htm. In this case, the file name in the player remains unchanged.

The following is a solution to the problem in 2003, which is also useful in XP.

Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos

Please be aware that these steps do not resolve any issue with Macromedia Flash, but are a configuration step for Microsoft Windows 2003 and Microsoft IIS Server 6.0. any difficulties in executing those instructions or any errors that may arise from modifying your system settings shocould be addressed to Microsoft. for more details, please refer to your IIS documentation.

1.on the Windows 2003 Server, open the Internet Information Services Manager.
2. expand the local computer server.
3. right-click the local computer server and select Properties.
select the MIME types tab.
4. click the new... button and enter the following information:
associated extension box :. FLV
MIME type Box: FLV-application/octet-stream
5. click OK.
6. restart the World Wide Web Publishing Service.