FLV Flash is not reliable
Flash files .flv are not reliably played with VLC.
While some files play others do not and the machine in use seems to have more to do with the problem than the file. Some files play once and not again. Others don't play the first time but may on another machine.
The seeking and time indication problems continues in 0.8.6 Considering that Flash is officially supported in this version, shouldn't it at least work? http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=28127 http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=20866&highlight=flv http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=26164&highlight=flv
In the last version of ffmpeg flv is both decode and encode.
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=27238&highlight=flv http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=27251&highlight=flv
I know this is not all of them but is a good indicator of the randomness of the problems on all platforms.