Admit it or not but we all download videos of the net. And most of the videos that we download of the net are most probably in FLV format FLV stands for Flash Video Files, and in most OS’s there’s no default FLV player. For eg. in Windows, the Windows Media Player won’t play FLV videos. So what should you do then? Read on.To play an FLV video, you need a special media player on your PC. I would recommend the following two programs for this:
- GOM Media Player
GOM Player is a free multimedia player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF. Users don’t have to install codecs separately. GOM Player is capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play locked or partially downloaded files. Its other features include drag-and-drop support, HTTP streaming, editable skins, subtitling, overlay mixer, key remapping, enhanced filter rendering, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files and unicode support among others. You can download it from here.
- VLC Media Player
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list. It can play FLV videos but there are some problems occasionally.
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