Ask an FMS Guru #16: How do I get the metadata "duration" to be added into the FLV?

This is an easy but slightly obscure problem to fix, most probably wouldn't be aware of it unless coming across it themselves in the past.

The question: When I encode the video and save it on the server, then later playback the FLV I notice the "metadata" is missing (duration in particular)?

The answer:

Upgrade. One of the older versions of 1.5 was missing the duration value when creating FLV files.. I can't remember which one. Upgrading to the latest build of 1.5 (if you can find the upgrade files somewhere) or using FMS2 will get you the duration value in the FLV files.

On a related note, the first version of Sorenson Squeeze 4 also had messed up metadata, a lot of people were relying on Burak's FLV metadata injector actually. Something to keep in mind perhaps.

Posted by Graeme at October 31, 2006 03:26 AM