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Re:Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, s... by egypturnash on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:28PM (#28846799)
Definitely video codecs, at least:

Flash Video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs following the Sorenson Spark or VP6 video compression formats. As of 2010 public releases of Flash Player (collaboration between Adobe Systems and MainConcept) also support H.264 video and HE-AAC audio.[3] All of these compression formats are restricted by patents. - Wikipedia’s page on FLV, the video format that YouTube was built around.

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Re:Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, s... by grishka on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:58PM (#28847745)
And these are definitely not a problem if ripped out because ffmpeg has them all. Source: I once wrote a (somewhat terrible) FLV player for an Android app that used libavcodec/libavformat.
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