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FLV is short for Flash Video and denotes a video (compatible with Flash) that has been exported by the Flash Video Exporter add-on that is included with the Adobe Flash software.
FLV ties can also be exported by other programs that support this file extension. The file contains audio, video, text and metadata, with the video being stored in the standard SWF format.