FLV Player released

Saturday 11 October 2003  –  Filed under: FLV Player  –  No Comments

Today I finally had some spare time in which I could create a small utility: FLV Player. This application basically allows you to view Macromedia Flash MX Video files (.flv files) outside Macromedia Flash MX (2004).

FLV Player screenshots

I was inspired by Owen van Dijk’s FLVBrowser (which was written in C# and requires the .NET framework) to create a more simple, lightweight tool, in Flash MX 2004, that enables a user to view .flv files without the need of Macromedia Flash itself.

Since Flash doesn’t offer any way to pop up, for example, a ‘Browse for File’ dialog, I’ve wrapped my Flash app into Screenweaver which provides the necessary communication between my Flash movie and the Windows OS. Screenweaver also allows you to create a drag and drop mechanism, so you can also drag a .flv file onto the player to view it.

The current edition may be a bit rough around the edges, it’s a preliminary version. I’ve been working on it for about 4 hours, so don’t expect anything very well polished. I intend to improve FLV Player over the coming days, so stay tuned.

todo / known issues:

  • add full screen mode
  • add possibility to add a cue of .flv’s
  • make application remember last position
  • for some reason, the Media Display component doesn’t always correctly return the dimension of an .flv, this is under investigation

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