# Streaming quicktime files in flash...possible, but how?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-quicktime-files-in-flash-possible-but-how/268203 "2008-08-11T10:55:18Z")\
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Recently bumped into [troika’s](http://www.troika.tv) website and to my surprise figured that their videos are streaming .mov files!

Does anyone know how this is done? If yes, what are the pros and cons? And how does this technique perform against a .flv file?