Sample HTML to play FLV files from http://127.0.0.1 ?

[JoeHill]

Walter Dnes left a post-it on the fridge:

>   I've got a few .FLV (Flash Video) files that I want to pass around.
> Under linux, it "just works" to play .FLV files with mplayer or
> whatever.  My Windows-using friends don't have it so easy (Yes, some of
> my best friends are Windows-users<g>).  There doesn't seem to be a
> "native" .FLV player in Windows.
> 
>   Obviously, YouTube, etc, work over the web for Flash-enabled browsers.
> I assume that it's a matter of putting together the correct HTML to
> invoke Flash (plugin or Active-X control) in the user's browser to play
> the .FLV file.  Does anyone have working sample HTML code that does the
> trick to get the browser to "play" a local .FLV file?  I've looked at
> YouTube and other sites, and I see a gazillion references to server-side
> scripts, which I can't figure out.

I'm no HTML guru, but if you want to share these files with anyone and
everyone, why not just convert them to avi with ffmpeg? Dead easy and anyone
can play them with almost any player they've got installed.
 
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