# Streaming an Mpeg through a swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-an-mpeg-through-a-swf/217049>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-an-mpeg-through-a-swf/217049 "2007-02-22T16:31:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![onion](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/onion/32/3349_2.png) [@onion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/onion)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-an-mpeg-through-a-swf/217049/1 "2007-02-22T16:31:22Z")

</div>

Hi all, I’ve been using flash for video for a while now. I made a swanky flash video component for my company’s content management system which allows people to upload an FLV to a page and be able to play the video straight away.

But someone wants me to create something similar that will allow me to stream an Mpeg file through an SWF. I have done similar things before with streaming an MP3 from a file, but never an Mpeg.

I’ve looked around for a while and can’t find any solution other than converting the video to flv and then streaming it. This is no good for me because I need to allow morons to be able to upload their own mpgs, and getting them to convert their files to flv will result in disaster.

Does anyone know of a way to make this possible?

thanks!