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Why won certain flv files play on a RedHat Enterprise server?

April 26, 2017certain Computers Enterprise files FLV linux play RedHat server web

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Why won certain flv files play on a RedHat Enterprise server?

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Hi CKennedy, Assuming that the FLV files that won’t play aren’t broken in some way, many web sites including nbc.com, youtube.com and amazon.com have upgraded to the newer Flash Video versions, so you most likely need to upgrade the player and/or the web browser plugin (Adobe Flash Player for Linux is currently at version 9.0.48.0). The next major update to Flash Player is supposed to also support MPEG-4 encoded videos (aka. DivX, Xvid, …). Depending on the version of Red Hat Enterprise Server you have, the easiest way to stay current may be to download and install the RPM to add Adobe’s repository to your system: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm You’ll be able to use Pirut or another package manager to install the most current version of Flash Player. Using YUM from a command line, type: yum localinstall adobe-r