Flash Encoder - General Questions

I'm new to video encoding and am looking for some general
help.
1. What are the best settings to use for encoding video to
get the best quality and the smallest .flv file size?
2. What is the optimal .flv file size for a 3 minute video?
3. To view a .flv file in a flash player, is it necessary to
have the .flv and related files residing on a Flash Media Server?
4. When previewing a web page in a browser that was created
in Dreamweaver, the .flv plays nicely in the Flash Player but after
FTPing it to the server, everything comes up blank. Is that because
we need a Flash Media Server or are just not patient enough for the
video to load?
Thanks.

1.
http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert/?p=138
2. Depends on point1 and your bandwidth you targetting
3. no, you can also upload it to a normal IIS or Apache
4. probably the path to the flv is wrong, or not all files
have been uploaded to the same directory, don't forget to upload
the skind you used as well.

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