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Is there any library for playing MKV (matroska multimedia container) files in Flash (AS3, MXML)? I am looking for an open source or similar to open source implementation. Since my MKV file has only Theora video, I am okay even if library supports only one type of video stream.
You can only play videos in Flash that the player natively supports. If you write or convert an actual video codec in ActionScript (or even use the C to Flash bytecode compiler) the performance will not be good enough to get acceptable video quality.
For internal purposes we implemented a Motion JPEG display within ActionScript and even though all that did was modify the headers a bit and display a series of jpeg files using mostly native code, the effective framerate was poor.
Flash player natively supports a few formats
Mostly everyone uses H264 which is the most recently added.