# Streaming video in flash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 14, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-video-in-flash/20894 "2003-05-14T14:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivanwright](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ivanwright/32/119_2.png) [@ivanwright](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ivanwright)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-video-in-flash/20894/1 "2003-05-14T14:08:42Z")
can you stream video (.mpeg or .avi) playback in flash or does the whole video clip have to load before you can play it back? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-video-in-flash/20894/2 "2003-05-14T14:40:08Z")
as far as I kno, you can’t stream a video only audio. Oh well flash does a good job on streaming audio, maybe they can wokr on video now :O. Oh well video is large, but fun to watch as you can see in the 5 min production I made in flash here: [www.evilattitude.com/boom](http://www.evilattitude.com/boom) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-video-in-flash/20894/3 "2003-05-14T15:22:09Z")
if you turn your video into an swf you can stream it just like you might stream any animation as flash’ll let you play what has downloaded while the remainder is still downloading. Other than that there isn’t a way to stream video files directly