Playing .flv files on iphone

Question

I have a webservice returning .flv file, it has to be played in iphone application, how do i play a .flv (flash file) in iphone?

Does anyone has faced this scenario

Answer 1

SInce the video is probably already h.264 encoded inside the FLV container, you may want to try FLV Extract on the server to avoid recompression:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FLV_Extract

Basically you just need to run it once for each of the videos on the server and keep the results around.