Originally Posted by blackmonsters

h.264 is not a standard, it just makes a lot of sense.

The surfer can skip ahead in an h.264 video without the portion skipping to
being downloaded already.

Flv can only skip foward to what has already been downloaded.

Hypothetical Case : You want to give affiliates 10 minutes videos.
Then better to make them h.264 to save bandwidth by people forwarding
to the cumshot instead of waiting for the entire video to load.