While working with some .flv videos today, I came across a problem that I had not seen before. The .flv files, after I uploaded them, were not showing up on the page that I had created. The swf was present and it seemed as though it was looking for the video file, and I knew it was up on the server. So I talked to Pawel, the IT guy, and we found out the problem. When serving .flv files off of a Windows Server 2003 (or other types of servers I’m sure), it requires setting up the MIME type on the server first because it isn’t one of the native or initial MIME types on the server. So here is the work around:
1) Select the site to configure in IIS, right click and select “Properties”
2) Under HTTP Headers Tab, select “File Types” under the MIME Map section and select “New Type”
3) Type “.flv” as the associated extension and “video/x-flv” as the content type.
4) Select “OK” and you’re good!
Cya
