# "Loaded file is an unknown type" - FLV

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-file-is-an-unknown-type-flv/322408>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 20, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-file-is-an-unknown-type-flv/322408 "2011-05-20T08:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![patrickjv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@patrickjv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patrickjv)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loaded-file-is-an-unknown-type-flv/322408/1 "2011-05-20T08:28:30Z")

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I get that error msg loading an FLV message from external server ([http://cdn-alib.ultrashock.com/video1.flv](http://cdn-alib.ultrashock.com/video1.flv)), but no error if loading same flv from local disk/folder.

Anybody any clue as to why that could be?