Playing .mp4 file in flash player

Hi Guys, How do I play .mp4 files I encoded with H.264 and AAC in Flash Player 9. I downloaded and installed the latest RPM on my Linux machine but pasting the file location in Firefox gives me the "Save As.." option. I don't want to use any third party FLV player.

you need to use 3rd party player + all the code to embed it into some page (or make one yourself).

Well that sucks! When I found out that Flash Player 9 had gained support for H.264 and AAC in latest release, I was glad that finally I could send content to clients in H.264 and AAC without worrying about how they are going to play that as almost everyone has FlashPlayer installed on their systems. Is it necessary that the page that contains the embedding code is served through a webserver or can it be a static file. If yes, then may be I could modify the page so that it accesses demo video files from a subfolder and package everything into a zip file for distribution.

If you need a standalone app to play MP4 files, why not use MPlayer? It's OpenSouce and cross-platform :) You can either use one of the existing front-ends (SMPlayer, MPUI, etc.) or you can easily create your own front-end. Also there is VLC Media Player as an alternative... Nevertheless you prefer Flashplayer, you could simply embed a HTML doc into your app (for exmaple via IE) and load the Flashplayer there. The HTML code could be generated dynamically by your app and load a local MP4 file for playback. Alternatively your app could only generate the required HTML code and then open the HTML doc with the default browser...