# Difficulty in playing .flv videos in Flash 8

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**Created:** [December 2, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-in-playing-flv-videos-in-flash-8/276672 "2008-12-02T15:27:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![kmrooney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@kmrooney](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kmrooney)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/difficulty-in-playing-flv-videos-in-flash-8/276672/1 "2008-12-02T15:27:03Z")

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[FONT=Verdana]I have recently converted three videos (each about 4 minutes long) from .mov to .flv. in order to play them in Flash. However, I can’t get them to play in Flash 8 Professional. I followed the instructions in Flash help and imported the video into Flash using the Video Import Wizard. I tried using each of the four deployment options starting with “Progressive download from a web server.” In my video folder I end up with three files for a video, a Flash Video File (with FLV in the upper left corner), a Flash Movie File, a Flash Document file, and a ClearOverPlayMute Flash Movie file. However, when I open any of the files (including the movie files) and click on Test Movie, the video doesn’t play. I would appreciate it if anybody could let me know what I am doing wrong.[/FONT]