SWF or FLV

Few things make me feel stupid but this is starting to. I
have an Adobe Media Server fully configured and ready to use.
This is my question: I have both videos and tutorials. I have
created my tutorials using Adobe Captive 3, videos are created from
many outside sources.
My Adobe Captive and Adobe Flash Pro create only SWF files.
So why do I have a Media Server? The point is that I have a large
population that accesses my site daily. My site has a max capacity
of 10M up and down. The SWF files are very large and I do not want
the user do have to down load the whole file before viewing it. I
also do not want to use bandwidth to down load a tutorial that was
not fully viewed.
My media server only serves up FLV files. So what is Adobe
thinking? I can convert the SWF files to FLV “not using an
Adobe product”.
So to ask a stupid question: Should I be converting my SWF
files to FLV? And if not why?
Thanks in advance.
From A long time web developer and database integrator
feeling a little stupid.

I am feeling really lost here, I’m running though the
same issue. I do have to convert SWFs or FLAs to FLVs; is there a
way to do so? I find it extremely frustrating that if you develop a
movie using flash, although you can export it to a Windows avi file
or to a QuickTime movie, you cannot export it to an FLV… I
understand that the word “Flash” from FLash Video means
that you can view it via Flash player, but wouldn’t it make
sense to be able to export a Flash movie to an FLV using Adobe
“Creative” Suite rather than having to use some obscure
software to perform the conversion?

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