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The idea is to retrieve only the sound track of the flash video, that can be helpful in some cases .
Basically, i really didn't want to install another dummy free mp3 converter soft that wouldn't work at the end with .flv files (but this you find out usually after the installation) .
So how to retrieve a sound track from a .flv and transcode it directly into an MP3 ?

I found myself in a situation today that leaded me to write this article, as i couldn't find anywhere on the internet someone who 've been through this kind of problem .

How would you handle the upload of very big files on a distant ftp server ?
Or , put differently, how would you notice on a distant ftp folder that big files arrived in full , and are complete , if you are not the one that send the file.
The code below might not work on a window- based machine, i only use it on linux servers, and didn't try it on a personnal computer , so don't ask me to resolve problems between windows and Apache/PHP or that kind of stuff, you won't find me ....

This is my first attempt in litterally translating one of my article from french to english, so dear english readers , please don't be too harsh on my mistakes , i'll do my best though as i'm an english-language lover for many years now...

Now , what about that RSS reader in flash AS3 ? I'm not talking about Flex as i've never used it but that was an article about Flex that help me find out how to make it work .
Here's how it look (not so good graphically , i'm pretty bad at design) .