FLV support in Quicktime X...iPhone too?

Seth Weintraub
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June 15, 2009
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Update: This might be a beta for Perian for Quictime X as our developer friends are saying nay on FLV support in Quicktime X.

According to a blog called Cateto, Apple's Quicktime X in Snow Leopard will play Flash FLV movies...again.  Quicktime supported FLV movies up until 2007.  After that, you needed Perian to play FLVs and SWFs in Quicktime. 

No longer.

Some have insinuated that this might lead to Flash support on iPhone.  We'd be hopeful, but that is a big stretch.  FLV support only means that Quicktime will play H.264 video in a .FLV wrapper, not that all of the complex Flash interactivity will be built in as well.

Baby steps.

 

Comments (9)

currentinterest (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 4:42pm

I would like to be able to see interactive Flash on the iPhone so action script based interactive tutorials etc. could be used.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 5:23pm

Let's be "hopeful" that Flash will just go away. There's enough stuff in HTML 5 that that we don't really need a bloated, slow, buggy plug-in to get cool interactive web sites.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 6:04pm

I wish Flash would just go away. I hope they never support flash on the iPhone. Battery life will be poor and designers will get lazy.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 6:21pm

I'm so sick of Apple users saying Flash go away.

It's on 98% of all computers in the World. Every major site uses it to show videos.

Apple can't win them all and QuickTime has never filled the gap.

Flash (for developers is great). It will NEVER make the iPhone becuase 80% of the games in the apps store can be done with Adobe products in a Flash wrapper.

If it sucks so bad then why has EVERYONE chosen it for video delivery over Windows WMP which has 90% Market Share for their OS & QuickTime which only Apple uses?

dryan (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 8:52pm

I think HTML5 is exactly the point of this. To support , the OS will have to be able to play the most popular video format on the web. I think it will get ported to iPhone in the not too distant future as well.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 6:29pm

Keep that shit Flash off of iPhone.

chookalana (not verified) | June 15, 2009 - 7:17pm

Nice bootleg of Prince live. :)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 17, 2009 - 12:11am

"If it sucks so bad then why has EVERYONE chosen it for video delivery over Windows WMP which has 90% Market Share for their OS & QuickTime which only Apple uses?"

because browsers don't support playing back of "video" out of the box. html5 mission is to fix this. Also there are so many things that can be done by javascript libraries like jquery that are more user accessible and just better all around. Flash is a step backwords from were the web is moving. There are no real high versions of flash on any mobile devices. Flash just makes things hot, drains batters, and keeps things closed off. Sure right now it's like flash is the video on the web. But really it's just a Mpeg-4 player is controls and annoying ads. But look at youtube. The guys that made flash so popular "on the web" are moving away from flash the first chance they get. here is there html5 demo - as in not depenting on any 3rd party - just the browser. (You'll need safari, chrome, to see it work) http://www.youtube.com/html5

The iPhone supports Mpeg-4, javascript, canvas, and scores a 97 on the acid 3 test (iphone OS 3.0). There are so many great things ahead for html5 and usability. Flash on the other hand is just going to get fatter, require more cpu, and use more power.. all directions the web is not going. Flash video alone kills a laptop in half the time of WMP, VLC, MPlayer, Quicktime.

There will always be people that want to throw all this shit at a user because they are lazy or don't no better, or just don't care. Then there are real code writes who think the process though like this guy http://youtube.com/watch?v=xIxDJof7xxQ

The web in the next few years is going to tell you how much flash sucks. Not me.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 19, 2009 - 7:46am

Uhh... the blog cited had Perian installed already. QuickTime X *does not* play .flvs on it's own. If the .flv is an H.264 file? maybe.