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What's In a FLV File? FLV, also known as "Flash Video", is a popular video format. It is mainly used for streaming video over the Internet; it's also the format that YouTube and other popular video sites use. On the technical side, the FLV format can support a number of different video and audio codecs. However, most often it uses H.263 or H.264 (higher quality) video compression and the MP3 codec for audio. Picking a FLV Player Now that you've got a bit of (hopefully not too boring) background info, lets move to the central question : finding a free FLV player. And you're in luck, as I've already done the research for you. It turns out there are lots of video players, but most of the so-called "FLV players" appear to be just bare-bones hacks with minimal functionality. The best player I could find was VLC (a.k.a Videolan media player). VLC -- the FLV Player's Features It plays FLV files. Duh. It's free. The VLC player is free and open source. It also works on nearly any operating system, including Windows (all versions), Mac OS X and various flavors of Linux and BSD.
Can play partial FLV files. For example, if you're downloading a large video and want to check the image/sound quality before the download is complete, you can open the file in the VLC player and view the part that's already downloaded. Extremely stable. No matter what kind of file you throw at it, VLC will do it's best to play it. Even if the file is corrupted or encrypted, this FLV player won't crash or lock up your system. I've been using if for over 2 years and it has crashed just once. Can open all popular video and audio formats (not just FLV).
You can download the VLC player at http://videolan.org/vlc/ Alternatively, you could convert the FLV to AVI and play it in any media player you choose. AVI files are well supported by all common video players.
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