Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is it possible to play mpeg, avi, divx
or other video types in Flex or do they need to be converted?
I've looked around and I can only find that flv files are
supported.  share|improve this question add comment  3 Answers
Short answer: No.  Long answer:  From "Programming Flex 3"
(O'Reilly), p. 295:  Flash Player supports four video codecs:
H.264, On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark and Screen. Unless you have
existing encoded Flash video, the H.264 codec will be optimal,
as it currently has the best support for high-quality video
playback  To display video that is encoded as any of the above,
the Flex framework uses the VideoDisplay component which expects
a flv file as an argument.  The VideoDisplay component is in the
Flex language reference here and for completeness, have a look
at the Adobe forum thread linked to from Tanmay's answer.
share|improve this answer add comment  no, by flash alone no.
you either have to convert them in flv or stream them somehow in
flv format.  share|improve t