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Flash Video and Webcam Chat Information

By ChatRooms.NET - 2010-07-22

Today you will also find Flash video, or Flash wecam chat, is being used more frequently due to the higher quality video picture that can be achieved using Flash technology.

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. The latter F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is supported starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and currently developed by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally developed by Macromedia.

Benefits of using Flash for video chat include:

Resizable chat interface
Zoomable webcam windows
Stable flash video chat front end
Flash chat provides better compressed audio/video streaming
As Flash is cross platform, flash video chat work efficiently on Windows, Linux or MAC.
Flash comes pre-installed on Windows XP, Vista , and the new windows 7 operating system.
Flash is more flexible and stable than Java or other browser based languages used for older video Chat systems.
As flash is installed on nearly 94% of all major browsers, flash video Chat just works with nothing to download, install, or hassle with.

FLV player - A FLV player is a type of media player that is used for playing Flash video from PC as well as from Internet websites. A FLV player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring or developmental tools. It can also be embedded in the website using Flash component or embeddable version of FLV player.

Flash video recording - It is possible to record online flash videos using Stream recorders and Screen video capture software. The former gives lossless results, while the latter allows recording any video even when anti-leeching measures are used.

Flash Video Chat requires that the Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe be installed on your computer. You can get the flash player (and player updates) for free from Adobe.com for your computer if it is not already installed.