Need to play flash videos on iphone

Question

Hi all,

I am building this iphone app for a client and they have a large set of flash video files that they need to play/stream to the iphone. I understand that the iphone doesnt natively support flv playback but isnt there anything I can do to get around this problem?

In case it helps, they are using the akamai flash player on their website to play these video files.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes! - You can convert all the videos to m4v format.

Answer 2

There's a javascript hack available, but it will only work if it's installed on the clients web server. It's also pretty clunky and slow and will likely murder battery life.

A workaround, since you're working with video, is to convert to mp4 format.

Short answer: no flash, but conversion will do what you need.