FLV Player 2.0 wishlist

Thursday 27 April 2006  –  Filed under: FLV Player  –  19 Comments

FLV iconI’m looking for feedback on how to improve FLV Player. FLV Player is rather simple at the moment, but I want to make some time to improve it, as a lot of people seem to use and enjoy it. Also, I have been provided with a license for mProjector by the kind folks at Screentime, so that also brings a Mac version into view. Thanks guys!

My personal wishlist…

  • better detection of available metadata, so resize buttons always work (I found a way to do this using good ol’ Video object instead of the MediaPlayback component I’m currently using)
  • add fullscreen option
  • add multi language system for texts in UI
  • add possiblity to cueue FLV’s and play in sequence
  • add access to deblocking filters and video smoothing
  • check if FLV file association still exists on startup (and restore automatically)
  • remember last position on screen
  • error reporting if RTMP stream is not found
  • check for new version automatically
  • Mac OS X version

Wishlist from visitors so far:

  • Display time in HH:MM:SS:MS format
  • Optionally display video only, without UI
  • Frame-by-frame comparison shortcut
  • Zoom-lock, remember zoom preference
  • Pallette swatch to change background color (perhaps even a “load background image” option?)
  • Always on top option
  • Save current FLV frame as JPEG

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19 Responses

  1. rush says:
    Saturday 7 July 2007 at 00:10

    It would be nice to have the option to halve the size of the video like on youtube.

    Keep up the good work and thanks for the player!
  2. Master X says:
    Sunday 15 July 2007 at 03:29

    It would be nice to make Fullscreen on Secondary Desktop and not when I press that i only see on Primary Display Fullscreen. So it will be nice to see videos on Youtube or other sides on TV at Fullscreen. Thank you for the player, nice work !
  3. File Surface says:
    Monday 16 July 2007 at 11:08

    A loop or repeat AB option.
    I’d take loop over AB any day, but both are nifty to have.
  4. victor thoret says:
    Tuesday 17 July 2007 at 07:41

    I suppose I just want to thank you for your time and effort to help peolple like me get this service,what you do is beautifull,thank you……..

    Victor
  5. Tammo says:
    Saturday 25 August 2007 at 13:38

    Martin:

    Thank you for this wonderful program. It has been a real helpo. One thing, besides the full screen or better yet drag to any size feature is the ability to set the player up for repeat play so that it loops continuously.

    Tammo
  6. Robert Smith says:
    Friday 9 May 2008 at 00:10

    Is there any way, perhaps with javascript, to have a link that not only loads your player & an rtmp stream from Akamai, but have it open in fullscreen mode automatically?
  7. Don Benoit says:
    Wednesday 22 October 2008 at 11:23

    Where are controls for the AB function so I can loop a video?
  8. tom aval says:
    Tuesday 4 November 2008 at 07:50

    If i’m not wrong, in previous flv version on right click I had the possibility to keep flv window alwys in front or in back.In v2025 it disappeared.Any way, many thanks for this player
  9. Nat says:
    Thursday 27 November 2008 at 03:53

    I have a wish list for this player as well. I would very much like more if if would maintain the size it was last at or a default size that can be set to a user’s preference. Its a great player but I like playing it on screen size two for everything but every time I put a new flv file on it reverts back to a size 1. A playlist would be lovelly as well.
    At any rate its an excellent player and not a memory hogger which is great. Keep up the good work. Thank heaps
  10. Shaun says:
    Saturday 29 November 2008 at 21:30

    Can you include image controls? Brightness,contrast,Etc.?
  11. Matthias says:
    Tuesday 23 December 2008 at 19:53

    Congratulations and thanks for this very useful player. Please do not extend too much its features and the neat UI which seem to me quite optimal.
  12. JR says:
    Thursday 12 February 2009 at 17:33

    I like the player but could you put in a play list I download a lot of fla files off the net keep up the work thanks
  13. Falkayn says:
    Tuesday 10 March 2009 at 07:16

    I’d recommend you look at adding a playlist feature, that would enable us to queue up a bunch of videos and then let them play one by one.
  14. Michael Bruno says:
    Saturday 14 March 2009 at 06:53

    Hi, your FLV player is fantastic, and so easy to use and not a hog on resources at all! However, one suggestion I would make is that to play multiple songs sequentially, I tried executing in a batch file consecutive commands of

    “{path}FLVPlayer.exe” “{path}{filename1}.flv”
    “{path}FLVPlayer.exe” “{path}{filename2}.flv”
    etc.

    at DOS. This succeeded in starting and playing the first selection, however, the program does not close when an flv file is concluded playing, hanging the batch file and the playlist. If a mode for auto-close at end of play could be added, it would be great, as batch playlists such as this could be executed. This, is my opinion, would make this the best *flv player available.

    Thanks!
  15. JT says:
    Sunday 15 March 2009 at 03:27

    It would also be nice if it had the ’stay on top’ function that the old one had so I can do other stuff and not having to click it again whenever i open another window.
  16. birgerzim says:
    Monday 20 July 2009 at 00:24

    Hi,
    nice work! Did you try to use the ?start= url query extension while seeking on a http stream? – Would be a nice feature. And possibly also show the complete url on the info window with the hostname included. And if possible a KB/s measurement with a download time calculation (useful for prebuffering in “pause mode” for coffee cooking ;-)

    Thanks!
  17. Casperrr says:
    Friday 18 September 2009 at 09:11

    “Always on top” for sure.

    Thanks for the great work.
  18. gargumma says:
    Monday 5 October 2009 at 20:33

    Like most people I know in my corner of the world, I have a slightly old computer — not totally outdated, but sometimes less powerful than desired. Because of that, my suggestion goes to audio and video quality, like controlling the audio and video buffer and the pixelation, codec of choice, etc. I’ve been getting terrible lags in every FLV I watch locally, but not remotely and not in other video files. I’d also suggest a longer volume control (bigger volume scale), a full window mode (not full screen, but a window with a blank area, like HTML pages in a browser), and, if possible, forcing the ability to seek to a specific point in any FLV file.
  19. John says:
    Tuesday 27 October 2009 at 18:30

    Unattended installation features would be useful as none of the operators seem to work ie /s /silent /quiet /qb! etc… Which installer does the setup use? installshield ? wise ? other?

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