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Top ideal free flv players in 2008

There are more and more flv players on the internet, then how can we choose the best and the most suitable flv player to us?

If you have installed other media players, but want to open flv files in a batch, I advise you’d better choose Aunsoft FLV Player. However, if you would like to open several formats such as FLV, MP4 with just one player, you can choose JW FLV Player. If you need to upload FLV files to your web, the best choice for you is Any FLV Player as it can create the html code by itself. The flv players above are for Windows. For Mac there is another player: SWF & FLV Player for Mac OS.

Now let me introduce eight flv players which are useful and powerful:

• Aunsoft FLV Player
  FLV Player developed by AUNsoft, newly emerged company, is a 100% free FLV software. It can play all files with an FLV extension, i.e. *.flv as well as FLV video files encoded by different codec, including Screen Video, Sorenson H. 263, on2 vp6, etc.
  * Support both URL and local FLV files.
  * Playlist and favorite management for handy file arrangement.
  


• JW FLV Player
  It is an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP, HTTP and live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.


• Any FLV Player
  It is an easy to use web video player software to play FLV (MPEG-4 encoded video file for Flash) files on the internet. With Any FLV Player, you can easily play your FLV videos on your website as it doesn't require the complicated Flash authoring tool and Flash development tools.


• SWF & FLV Player for Mac OS
  SWF & FLV Player is a free, swift and smart Flash player for Mac OS. Eltima enriched it with numerous handy options and controls, which ensures top grade usability for viewing and managing Flash movies. It fully supports not only FLV and SWF movies, but also Mac and Windows Flash Projector files. SWF & FLV Player is the most flexible Flash player for Mac OS with clean interface and absolute control of Flash movies, and it's still free for all Mac users.
  


• Sothink FLV Player
  Sothink FLV Player, also known as Flash Video Player, is a 100% free FLV Player. This flash video player can play all files with an FLV extension(*.flv). The powerful FLV Player can also support different video codecs including Screen Video, Sorenson H. 263, on2vp6, etc.
  


• Moyea FLV Player
  It is an easy-to-use desktop FLV player for the desktop playback of FLV files in a controllable mode. Files both from the local and the online video URL can be accessed. Moreover, the FLV videos playlist and favorites management make it convenient for you to organize the FLV files. Supporting full screen mode, Quick thumbnail picture capturing, and current screen saving can help you to get your favorite pictures from the video in no time. Ultimately, it is totally for free!


• Applian FLV Player
  Looking for an easy way to play FLV (Flash Video) files downloaded from YouTube and other video sites? Get the free Applian FLV Player. It's easy to use, and you can view videos at 1x, 2x or even full screen.Play URL's, Streams and Local Files.
  


• Fortop FLV Player
  It is a powerful but completely FREE utility for you to play Adobe Flash Video (FLV) files. It supports all versions of FLV videos with different codecs, including Screen Video, Soreson H.263, on2 vp6, etc. The Fortop FLV Player also supports change window size at will, full-screen mode, comprehensive FLV information display, full keyboard shortcuts, and the most important is, it allows you to extract MP3 music from FLV videos. Therefore, you can download MTV, short films or other type of FLV videos from Youtue, iFilm, MySpace, Break, etc, and then extract the MP3 music from those FLV videos and easily enjoy the music in your portable MP3 player, such as iPod Shuffle.

FLV Player

FLV Player is a digital media player that supports the .FLV file. FLV files are known as Flash files, these files are proprietary streaming audio/video files created by Macromedia (now known as Adobe). Flash files are extremely popular on the web and make up the majority of streaming videos found on sites such as You Tube, Google Video, Myspace, etc.

How to Play a FLV File
FLV files are extremely popular on the web, with millions of Flash files available. Flash files can be created for many purposes including, movies, banner ads, instructional videos, internet animations, etc. In order to view Flash files, you will need a Flash player. There are two types of Flash players available, web based Flash player and the PC based Flash player.There are two ways for you to view flv files, you can either download flv files and open them on you computer or view flv video on web directly.

Play FLV files on PC:
FLV files can also be downloaded and viewed on an assortment of media players,Include
Aunsoft FLV Player, Moyea FLV Player, Applian FLV Player and so on. Downloading those flv player is free.
FLV Player is a tool to play Flash FLV and H.264 (MPEG-4) videos with. This utility can come in handy when viewing many FLV and/or H.264 files, as it doesn't require the Adobe Flash IDE. The installer comes with optional FLV file-association, so double clicking an FLV file opens and plays the file in FLV Player. Version 2.0.24 adds support for the newly added H.264 (MPEG-4) format in the Adobe Flash Player and fixes bugs.

Play FLV files on web
For the vast majority of end users (90% +), Flash files are viewed using a Flash player browser plug- in. Since most computer users either use Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and/or Safari, practically all of these browsers (recent releases) include the Adobe Flash Player browser plug- in.

The Flash Player browser plug- in is considered to be a web based player. Viewing streaming videos online is seamless. When you visit a web page that includes an embedded Flash video file, a player with a video screen along with controls to control the player will be visible. In most cases, in order to access the video, you will need to either press play or click on the player's screen twice. If you are unable to view the Flash player or if you have difficulty watching Flash videos, you may have an outdated version of the Flash player browser plug in. You can visit Adobe.com to download the most recent version. Downloading this plug-in is free.

How to convert swf to DVD playing on DVD Player

Most of us like to integrate our favourite photos such as family photos, camera videos into flash, and wish to edit and save them as DVD. As the output format is swf format, so in order to burn the flash(.swf) to a DVD, we must convert them at first. Here I would like to share my own opinions with you. As after I tried some swf converters, I found there were some nice tools, which could help you collect your flash with high quality.
First, Convert swf to flv and burn flv to dvd disc.
Tools: Aunsoft SWF Converter, DVD Flick .
Step 1: Download Aunsoft SWF Converter, convert SWF to FLV or other formats video which DVD Flick support.

Step 2: Choose the exact style and profile: Flash video(*.flv,*.mp4, *.mov,*.3gp, *3g2)
Step 3: Cilck “Convert” to convert swf to flv.
Burn Flv to DVD with DVD flick:
Step 4: Download DVD Flick (totally free: http://www.dvdflick.net/download.php), add FLV videos.
This software allows you to edit video settings and DVD project settings.
Step 5: Finally insert your DVD to Create DVD.

Second,Convert SWF to DVD and burn DVD to dvd disc.
Step 1: Download Aunsoft SWF Converter, Choose the exact style and profile.
Style: MPEG2 Video(*.mpg or *.vob)
Support: Standard DVD (*.vob)
Supper Video CD(*.mpg)
Medium Quanlity MPEG2 Video (*.mgg)


Step 2: Click "convert" to convert SWF to DVD
Step 3: There are two guide for burning Vob to DVD :
Burn a DVD Video disc using freeware tools ImgTool and DVD Decrypter
http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/38/59/

Burn and author a dvd from vob:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic120021.html