Bridge cs6 won't display .flv thumbnails??

any suggestions? It appears adobe doesn't offer any help...

How much homework have you done on this issue to narrow down the problem? Perhaps using one of the older formats? Perhaps the header is causing problems with generating a thumbnail?
Here are some excerpts from flv open source website http://osflash.org/flv. Hope they are relevant.
It is possible to place H.264 and AAC streams into the traditional FLV file, but Adobe strongly encourages everyone to embrace the new standard file format. There are functional limits with the FLV structure when streaming H.264 which couldn't be overcome without a redesign of the file format. This is one of the reasons Adobe is moving away from the traditional FLV file structure. Specifically dealing with sequence headers and enders is tricky with FLV streams. Adobe is still working out if it's possible to place On2 VP6 streams into the new file format.
Video needs to be in H.264 format only. MPEG-4 Part 2 (Xvid, DivX etc.) video is not supported, H.263 video is not supported, Sorenson Video is not supported. A lot of pod casts are still using MPEG-4 Part 2 so do not be surprised if you do not see any video.
Codec
Introduced in Flash Player version
Introduced in Flash Lite version
Container Formats
ISO Specification
Codec Id
Sorenson Spark 2)
6
3
FLV
2
Macromedia Screen Video 3)
6
FLV
3
Macromedia ScreenVideo 2 4)
8
FLV
6
On2 TrueMotion VP6-E
8
3
MOV
4
On2 TrueMotion VP6-S
9.0.115.0
MP4V, M4V
5
H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10)
9.0.115.0
MP4, F4V, 3GP, 3G2
ISO 14496-10

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