[LINK] Re: executable content vs plain data

[Robin Stephens]

On Jan 20, 2008 3:51 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
> Robin Stephens wrote:
>
> > Where do you think the play/pause etc buttons come from?
>
> The video player. It would be hard to even imagine that every
> FLV file contains megabytes of player code within it ;)

The video player (codecs) is built into flash player, controlled by
buttons drawn inside your browser using... the flash player.

>From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video

Flash Video files can be delivered in several different ways:

    * As a standalone .FLV file. Although Flash Video files are
normally delivered using a Flash player for control, the .FLV file
itself is fully-functional on its own and can be played or converted
to other formats from local storage such as a hard disk or a CD.