Can I use FLV video files in Flare topics?

[kafkascampi]

Hi

I would like to include some videos in my webhelp topics. I have Screenflow, which makes MOVs, and I can convert these to FLVs. Further conversion to SWFs results in poor quality videos. I'm something of a novice with video--is there a way to embed a player in my webhelp that will play my FLV videos in the Flare help topics?

[NorthEast]

The code you'd use to embed it in WebHelp is the same as you'd use for a normal web page - the next step is to find out how you'd do that.

Have a search for FLV browser plug-ins; although if your users are going to have to install a plug-in, then I suppose you could just as equally use a plug-in that handles MOV files (Quick Time).

[Madcap Guru]

If the FLV is in the Project files, you could Insert Image, and Change it to point to the FLV, ,may not look pretty thou

[LTinker68]

If you have Dreamweaver you can use it to create a "skin" for the FLV player, which will generate the skin files and code. You then copy the skin files into the same folder as your topic, I believe, copy the FLV file into a folder somewhere, and copy the code from Dreamweaver into your topic's page code (and change the location where it's pointing to the FLV file). I haven't actually tried that in Flare, but it should work.