SWF mx, swf 3 ( legacy ), and FLV, whats the difference

[theewizard]

and why ?

is it headers, compression, content format, ALL three ?

I'm guessing that FLV ( flash video ) is the newest ( maybe i'm wrong )

and I know the early version of swf was all about programing animations for web design, but things seem to have changed a lot after Adobe bought 'macromedia'

I tried reading the wiki, but its a lot of dates about techincal revisons when this and that was added, and nothing basic about what the differences are and why.

[redwudz]

FLV is Macromedia's name for the format, Flash Video. Adobe bought it out and call it SWF, Shockwave Flash. So I would assume the newer implementations are SWF.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video

And here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF

Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of variations within the formats. It is confusing. Do you have a specific problem? Other than that, you would have to read all that from those links. I haven't done that either.

[theewizard]

well I have noticed that , that most 'flash video' has flv, extension, but most programing, games apps, have swf ext

also my Multi-media phone will only utilize video animations or apps/games that are swf 3

not swf 5-8mx , BUT have NO way to identify which ones will work , without trying them

I was hoping to get some info to help we figure this out

[redwudz]

Hopefully, someone here knows more about the format than me.