Sample FLV Files — Download Flash Video Test Files
Flash Video · .flv · MIME type video/x-flv
Download a sample FLV file — the Flash Video container that carried almost all web video from 2005 until HTML5 took over. Flash itself is dead, but FLV files survive in archives, old LMS platforms and RTMP streaming stacks, and a media pipeline that claims broad input support should still convert them.
Our samples use the classic FLV1 (Sorenson H.263) codec with MP3 audio, matching what early YouTube and most Flash-era encoders produced.
Download sample FLV files
| File | Details | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
sample-video-480x270-1mb.flv | 480 × 270 · 10 s · 30 fps · FLV1 · MP3 audio · 837 kbps | 1.0 MB | |
sample-video-1280x720-2mb.flv | 1280 × 720 · 10 s · 30 fps · FLV1 · MP3 audio · 1603 kbps | 2.0 MB |
Use these files from the command line or CI
Every URL is stable and CORS-open. Pin the SHA-256 in your test and you will know the moment a fixture changes.
# Download one file curl -O https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/videos/flv/sample-video-480x270-1mb.flv # Verify it (SHA-256 is listed for every file above) shasum -a 256 sample-video-480x270-1mb.flv # Machine-readable index of every sample file curl https://pnb-website-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/samples/index.json | jq '.files[] | select(.format=="flv")'
FLV format at a glance
| Full name | Flash Video |
|---|---|
| Extensions | .flv |
| MIME type | video/x-flv |
| Introduced | Macromedia, 2002 (Flash Player 6) |
| Codecs here | FLV1 / Sorenson Spark + MP3 |
| Status | Obsolete; still used in RTMP streaming |
| Magic bytes | 46 4C 56 01 ("FLV") |
What people test with sample FLV files
- Archive migration from Flash-era platforms
- RTMP/streaming tooling
- Transcoder input coverage
Frequently asked questions
Can anything still play FLV?
VLC and ffmpeg-based players do. Browsers dropped Flash in 2020 and never supported FLV natively, so the practical answer is to convert to MP4 — a straightforward ffmpeg job.
Are these FLV files safe to download?
Yes. Every file is generated by our own open script from scratch — nothing is scraped or user-uploaded — and contains no scripts, macros or executables. The SHA-256 of each file is published on this page so you can verify what you received.
Can I use the sample FLV files commercially?
Yes. They are free for any purpose, including commercial products, test suites, demos and redistribution, with no attribution required. There is nothing to license and no one to ask.
Can I hotlink these files or use them in CI?
Yes. Every link is a stable direct URL over HTTPS with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and long cache headers, so curl, wget, fetch() and test runners can pull them directly. A JSON index of every file is linked from each page (see the command-line section).
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