What is the maximum published video duration?
Macromedia Flash only supports up to 16,000 frames. If your video frame rate is 25 frames per second, then the maximum duration will be 640 seconds. This is equivalent to a 10 minute 40 second flash video. However, Flash Video Studio allows you to set a url to open at the end of a video playback. This way you can chain several SWF files to make longer videos. So chaining six 10 min SWF files together will give you an hour video. The program is about $49.99 and allows you to convert video into flash so that people that come to your site will be able to see it because almost everybody has flash to play it. Also, it streams so there’s no slow down during download.
For FLV format, it is unlimited. For SWF format, Macromedia Flash only support SWF up to 16,000 frames. If your video frame rate is 25, then the maximum duration will be 640 seconds. However Flash Video Studio allow you to set a url to open at the end of a video playback. This way you can chained several SWF files to make a longer videos.