software which can stream any flv file

Question

i know this is not programming related, but i have a scenario.

Each video streaming site has a flash video plugin and upon doing the view source i can find the link of the flv file it is streaming. Now i wanted to make an application or work on an existing one, where i can copy and paste the url of the flv file and it streams it for me. Some thing like an application which can stream flash videos for me.

If you think this question isn't worthy of this place can any one suggest me a better place for it to ask at.

Answer 1

Use Adobe Flash or the Flex SDK.

Answer 2

On the client side you can use this flash application to render the flv (works on any flv file) http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ . Needs a license for commercial use (quite cheap).

On the server side you have to build an application which will stream flv files - but i guess that, if you want to use existing online flv files, you don't need this part.

Answer 3

Take an opensource flv player and plug it into your website and put the url of the flv files you want to stream.

Should work in most cases, in cases it won't work, you have the source code, so change it to overcome any issues :).