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FLV Player 2.0 released

14 October 2007 | filed under software | 96 comments

FLV Player screenshotI just released a new version of FLV Player: 2.0. Please go to the FLV Player page for more details and give this new version a try! The most important and also most requested new feature is the option to switch to fullscreen mode.

Besides that obvious addition, I have also taken the opportunity to implement a new design, added some preferences like auto-check for updates and use video smoothing. I also added the option to scroll through time with the mousewheel and made it possible to use the keyboard to trigger most of FLV Player’s functionality.

Please let me know what you think of this new version!

 

96 Responses to “FLV Player 2.0 released”

  1. Zane says:

    Wow! Thanks, for the software!

    You probably want to change this:
    http://applian.com/flvplayer/download_flv_player.php?src=Martijn

    It still says this: Download FLV Player 1.3.3

  2. qureyoon says:

    been waiting for this :)

    thanks a lot !

  3. Yaminou says:

    It’s very useful!
    But could you please add srt support?

    Thanks!

  4. gonzo says:

    standard shortcut for fullscreen (and back) is Alt-Enter. Perhaps you might want to use that, too.

  5. Min Thu says:

    Just downloaded v.2 which is very good. :)

  6. kwyjibear says:

    There are some great improvements. One thing that was changed that I wish hadn’t is in the Info window. It used to report total time in seconds. That was very helpful in my job. Now it displays in minutes and seconds.

    And I think I found a bug (I say think because I don’t know if this happens on other systems). After playing a video on full screen, I click on the play button again and it 1) comes out of full screen and 2) the menu buttons that normally appear in 1x mode are gone.

    But it is still a great program.

  7. Miguel says:

    How can i save a video from the flv to my computer?

  8. José Antonio says:

    Why can’t I move forward and backward with the arrow keys, like in Winamp?

    I was waiting for that in v2.0 :-(

  9. Future of News - Tägliche Hard- und Softwarenews says:

    FLV Player Version 2.0 Build 22 veröffentlicht…

     Weiterempfehlen

    ……

  10. Pofis says:

    Hey! i’ve been using your program for a while, it’s great!
    Do you need any help in programming? i would be interested in helping, specially in optimization in seeking for example, or other features.
    send me an email if you need any help.

  11. chrizz says:

    I love the FLV Player :)

    It will be better and better, extra good work !

    But me missing a playlist.
    It would be great, when you are able to make these.

    Thanks for the FLV Player :D

  12. freki says:

    Are there a loop function ? I think it’s very usefull, but i can’t find it :/

  13. Naveed says:

    Just downloaded the whole suite from Applian.

    Using FLV player 2.0. Works great! Would like a button to go back 20-30 seconds. I am using it to view Salsa dance clips to watch the moves. Would like to click a button to replay the same sequence over and over again.

    Also, an option to go into slow motion to watch the sequence (1/2 time) would be great as well.

    Best Regards,
    Naveed

  14. Ernest T. Bass says:

    Biggest improvement by far that I see is video smoothing. I had noticed for some time that when downloading (saving) those t-i-n-y YouTube vids, they were even smaller when played back afterward, if you kept the original quality - which is horrible to begin with, in most cases.

    If you increased their size, then they really tanked (became very pixelated). But now with video smoothing, you can at least increase them to YouTube size without losing quality. Sweet!

    I wish it was possible to lock in the screen size when switching to a new vid. Is it? It’s a real hassle having to resize the screen every time I load a new file to get it up to a decent size.

    I agree with all the other suggestions, BTW, but love the new minutes and seconds display - user choice would be the way to go here, I think. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

  15. david hunt says:

    This would be of great use in a classroom IF the Always on Top feature were implemented. Since flv is NOT a supported type in PowerPoint (a teachers stock in trade) the method of choice is to use the Action property of a piece of clickable text and have that reference the flv file. Windows then calls for the exe associated with flv and the magic happens. Unfortunately, about half the time, the player gets bounced to the window BEHIND Powerpoint and you just get the audio. If Always on Top was a sticky option, this application would be a real help in the classroom!!

  16. ahv says:

    some tips.

    1. would be even nicer, if you implented more standart keybord/mouse shortcuts (like alt+enter for fullscreen, mouse wheel and up-down arrows for volume control, left-right arrows for scrolling etc.)

    2. option “on top while playing” would be useful.

    3. bug alert! settings and info windows must be on top of the main player window even if it’s “always on top”.

    4. bug alert! right clicking mouse on settings/info windows executes the same pop-up menu, and changing these windows “on top”-status is a bit weird.

    5. they make settings/info/alike windows modal usually.

    6. “on top”-status of the main window should be saveable too. so better move this setting to those in settings window.

    7. why oh why it displays the name of the opened file in dos 8.3-format?

    sorry for crappy english.

  17. Booyah says:

    I can’t seem to get version 2.0 to stay in the Open With dialog.
    I guess I’ll just revert to 1.3.3
    Oh and I guess you should make it so that installing version 2.0 uninstalls version 1.3.3

    Voor de rest een prima programma, veel succes met het verder ontwikkelen ervan.

  18. Rick says:

    Does 2.0 load OVER 1.3.3?
    Or
    Does 1.3.3 have to be removed before loading 2.0?

  19. Martijn de Visser says:

    @Booyah: what do you mean with “…to stay in the Open With Dialog” ?
    @Booyah and @Rick: You don’t need to uninstall 1.33 first, it will be overwritten by 2.0

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  21. Kai Bolay says:

    Thanks for the update. Unfortunately the new version doesn’t seem to support rtmp:// URLs while 1.3.x didn’t have any problem with that. With the new version I only get the “failed to load” error message.

    Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way I can help debug this problem?

    Thanks!

  22. mike mcgarry says:

    how let size remain without having to hold mouse/cursor at sizer point. If you want to move cursor, screen goes with it. V. 1.33 was okay for this. Great product. Thanks. Mike.

  23. Muad'Dib says:

    Possible Bug in FLV Player v2.0 Build 22:

    If BOTH settings “Use video smoothing” and “Maintain framerate” are enabled, then keyboard commands don’t seem to work (or the system is so lagged it seems that way). At first I just thought the keyboard was non-functional in full screen, until I played around with turning various options on & off. FYI, I’m running Win XP Pro on an AMD Athlon chip w/1.25 gb of RAM.

    Other comments:

    I agree with previous poster(s) who requested the ability to save window SIZE (instead of always reverting to tiny window). And maybe increase some of the text size when you go to a larger window (not all of us have 20/15 vision!).

    By the way, great program (I wouldn’t bother to report bugs if I didn’t like it)! Thanks.

  24. Marco says:

    Great! But could you please add a “loop song” button ?

    Cheers
    Marco

  25. Tim Harvey says:

    The new FLV player is fantastic. I love being able to expand the viewing screen continuously, and the stay-on-top option (although this option needs refreshing).

    I agree with several earlier suggestions about using standard key controls (Alt-Enter etc).

    What I really want is a playlist feature. I’ve got hundreds of videos and I would like to just have them just play through without having to pick the next one to load up.

    Keep up the good work!

  26. DaveBooty says:

    Great, useful little program. I’m reviewing it for my blog. Gonna post the article tomorrow here: http://www.dgtalfactory.com/public/blogdavebooty/?p=35

    Keep up the great work.

  27. mant says:

    cool!

    it doesn’t display foreign characters, tho.

  28. Igor says:

    Still cool app.
    Now finally has + left/rigth arrow…. but it skips 5 sec. could it be less? Like in Quicktime? Easier to navigate to get the best part where you want a screenshot :-)

    Groeten uit België
    - Igor

  29. Sam says:

    Hi Martijn,
    I just try out your new updated FLV player, To be honest, same thing happen on my older PC which is a 1.3 Mz Chip with
    XP SP2, 512 MB RAM.
    everytime I loaded a FLV file,it will keep on playing until stop, I cannot touch any control on the FLV player.
    And with your new version, the sound goes very Choppy.
    I don’t have any promble on my 1.7
    Mz laptop,with 1 GB RAM
    which is also running XP SP2 .
    It’s your program “Sucks” Ram???
    Thanks.

    Sam

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  31. Phil says:

    Great little player

    It can even be run from a USB flash drive.

  32. Martijn de Visser says:

    @Sam: I am aware of the non-responsive UI issue. I’ve reported this issue to Screentime, creator of mProjector. I hope they find an issue soon!

  33. rich says:

    You new player looks great and plays things that choke VLC. I think it’s better than Adobe’s AMP. Hey could you add a playlist?

    I would like more metadata too. VLC does show good info, as does FLV MetaData Viewer, and it would be great if you could too.

  34. NewAge says:

    Hey.
    I see that there is no “Turkish” language choice in the player.
    If you send me the language file I can help you to translate in Turkish ;)

    Thanks for the player…

  35. Kyle Luna says:

    I’m also having a problem with the rtmp streams not working in 2.0, while they worked just fine in 1.3.

  36. Sandro says:

    Hi, i use your flv player but the volum is very low, is possible introduce the high volume ?

  37. Shaggy says:

    i cant get the flv player to play anything please help, it seems like every one likes this program but me ,i copy paste drag open folder play nothing plays please help

  38. ngocnt says:

    i use v2.0 build 23

    its context menu option ’s not changed when i select an item. but the function is ok.

    if the player has now playing list, it’s so wonderful.

    thank you very much.

  39. ZombyWoof says:

    Like the implementation of resizing windows!

    Bug - tried to save settings, but none will save for me.

  40. Needit says:

    Haja, i wanta ask somethin.
    There was a site where u could turn youtube links in FLV documents.
    I NEED ID!!!

  41. david says:

    seems great, but the cpu usage is very high. i can’t play on 2x mode anymore without hitting 100% cpu usage. it used to work on the 1.3.3 version.

    i am using a intel p3 697hz.

    hope it gets fixed :) THANKS for the software

  42. Sergio says:

    I really love FLV Player v.2.0 build 23.
    Thank you Martijn.

  43. anulka says:

    I wish there was a playlist available…

  44. Prokur says:

    If there will be playlist, it will be my favourite player :)

  45. Ken says:

    I noticed the program has high CPU usage
    and it would not respond to keystrokes, etc.

    Here’s a fix that worked for me, it does not
    hog resources anymore:

    find the executable file FLVPLAYER.EXE and right
    click on it, select PROPERTIES, COMPATIBLITY,
    and check Run this program in compatibility mode.
    I chose WINDOWS 2000 (I run xp)

    It now works beautifully.
    Enjoy!

    Thanks, Martijn for writing this

    Ken

  46. zeroxp says:

    Good Player!
    Where can i find a detailed userguide or documentation?
    is it supporting playlist now?

  47. Techgy says:

    Martijn,

    Thanks for your hard work on the new version of the FLV player.
    Years ago I put out a program as shareware. It’s no longer around, but going through the process gave me a keen understanding of what’s involved.

    Your efforts are appreciated, especially given that the player is being offered for free!

    Techgy

  48. RMendoza says:

    Hi Martinjn,

    Thanks for developing this new version of FLV Player. I have been using it and so far the software works great.

    However, I have been trying to play this one file I downloaded and it always stopped at different portion with a message “Empty Buffer” and after a while I would see a message “Flushing”. I tried downloading the file several times and when I played it, the result would be the same except that it stopped at different time of the video. By the way, the FLV file has a size of 114mb. I hope the size does not matter.

    Anyway, I appreciate your effort in creating your software. More power to you…

    Thanks a lot.

    RMendoza

  49. miguel says:

    Installs and works in linux via wine very well, it even puts the direct link on the desktop.
    suse 10.2 standard
    wine-0.9.51-11.1 standard suse binary

    GOOD JOB, thanks

  50. liuhuan says:

    I’m a flash developer in Shanghai, China. I used the 1.3.3 for a while.

    Thanks a lot for the new version! It’s really useful!

  51. William says:

    Grateful if you would enhance the functionality of flv player to open .m3u playlist (ASCII playlist). Thankyou and Regards,

    William,
    Hongkong,

  52. Deitmeck says:

    Hi Martijn, its a great piece of software, thanks a lot! Do you know something similar for a pocket PC (with windows mobile 5)?

    cheers
    Deitmeck

  53. Arturo says:

    With YouTube videos (Ctrl+V URL) I only get the âfailed to loadâ error message.

  54. Martijn de Visser says:

    @ Arturo - FLV Player doesn’t support direct playback of YouTube video’s. It is technically possible, but the YouTube Terms of Use (article 4C) forbids such functionality for third party video players.

  55. ESGAPRE says:

    Dear Martijn,we have recomended to our students your FLv player,it is efficient and very functional.

    Our acknowledge.
    Director Academico.

    ¡Be happy! you and your family

  56. Lawrence says:

    Wow - please just make it in Adobe AIR :)

    BTW your captcha is impossible

  57. Rafael Marin says:

    Nice job, dude!
    This is the best FLV player ever.
    Thanks for this outstanding software.

  58. tj says:

    Thanx!

    Greate SW, just 1 BIG issue. Please add the possibility to use play lists like in WinAmp and other SW!

    Please also consider adding the possibility to remember additional settings, like zoom factor (always start in 2x……..). And a repeat (film/playlist) function would also be nice……….

    Best Regards
    /tj

  59. Justin says:

    How do i download files from youtube to my desktop so i can play them on the FLV player. Thanks.

  60. kate says:

    hoi martijn,
    thanx for good program.
    how can i save the file from youtube if i want have them in format FLV?my PC only asks me if I want to safe it, but it´s in strange format and i have to open difficultly by - open- with program- etc…
    thanx

  61. Marc Auslander says:

    Thanks for the continued work on this. Two things I’d like to see.

    1. I wish the player would have the option of remembering its size as well as its position when I open a new file.

    2. The stop button has disappeared. I use it because of the lack of feature 1. I open the file, immediately stop, resize, and start. Now I have to pause and then click on the skip left button to get back to the start. (Or am I not seeing a stop button that is there?)

  62. Marc Auslander says:

    A more troubling difference has appeared. In 1.33, pause and start cleanly stopped and restarted. In 2.0.23, pause doesn’t stop instantly, and start stutters foward a bit. I’m back to 1.3.3 for now.

    Again, thank you for your efforts on this wonderful tool. I hope you take these reports as input, not complaint.

  63. Russo says:

    ??????? ???????!!! Big thanx!!!

  64. Kuikens says:

    Thanks Martijn for the new version.
    Full screen is greatly appreciated!

  65. DonWilly says:

    When wil there be a FLV player for windows mobile?

  66. Tai says:

    Where can I find the FLVPlayer.ico so I can use it for the FLV files on my computer instead of the default Windows Media Player.ico?

  67. ArminF says:

    I would appreciate if the installation of “Yahoo! Toolbar” was advised more visibly. It took me some minutes to get rid of it. But else thank you for this gem.

  68. RG says:

    To save files from sites like YouTube, I use FireFox with the Download Helper add-on.

    “I guess you should make it so that
    installing version 2.0 uninstalls version 1.3.3″

    Please don’t! If an option to replace one with the other is available, that’s great — but I hate the fact that Microsoft (and others) cause me to automatically lose an earlier version of a program when installing a new version.

    Also:
    I think this is a great program.
    I need no playlist.
    I need no loop function.
    I need no slow-motion function.
    I like simple, clean interfaces.
    I like programs with small footprints.
    I respect programs that run standalone so that I can carry them on a USB drive if necessary.

  69. anonim says:

    If you could Add:
    Full screen shortcut key - F11
    like in those little known programs: Opera,IE,Firefox,Word,Excel,(etc),WMP11 etc etc.

    Remember x2 would be nice too
    And faster disapearing of full screen controls
    Maybe also [X] button in full screen to?

    ****************************
    Also information that you can use
    page like http://www.keepvid.com to download FLV
    ****************************

  70. Juraj says:

    Hi, you did a great job with the 2.0 release.
    The only thing I’d wish to have in future releases is to optimize the code for video smoothing. When I play the FLV movies in the Windows Media Player (using ffdshow FLV codec), the CPU usage is about the half of the FLV Player’s CPU usage. Actually, I don’t care whether the CPU usage is 20 or 40%, but it’s quite annoying watching the movie on my notebook and hearing the CPU fan.
    I noticed, that the player uses the Windows GDI funcions (for rendering?). Maybe that’s the key to succes - avoid using them.

  71. tom says:

    Hi Martin,

    I think your flv-player used to have had a lot of fans in the portable app community. Are you planning to make flv-player 2 portable any time soon?

    Thanks and greetings,

    tom

  72. Ronni says:

    Amazing job, Big THANX MATE!.

    ive been testing your app since first public release
    and this version 2.0 IS JUST GREAT!!!

    i wish someone develops something similar for symbian v2 mobile phones
    if its in java better as it will be suitable for the majority of the phones out there.

    yes i know theres been a release of flash lite 3 on january and there are
    others developing players for flv content..like mobitubia,or emTube
    but they are suitable for the latest nokia Nseries only.

  73. MA Wedding Videographer says:

    Now that there is the new flv player? what is the best software to create flv files? is there an easy way to make high quality flv’s? if not, what are the best settings for making a good looking flv?

  74. Mbugua says:

    Is it possible to support the player showing a content list, then when someone selects the content they wish for it begins playing? I am running a wirless internet service and would like to have this embedded for user generated content.

  75. Thomas says:

    Any plans to make this able to stream .mp4 files? It won’t recognize the URL when I try to paste it.

  76. Ian says:

    Hi Martijn,

    I want to use an action button from within Powerpoint in Slideshow mode, to launch an FLV movie in FLV Player. I can’t find a wa to force FLV Player to stay on top of all other windows. I know that if I just start FLV Player that I can right click the Player window to select the option to stay on top, but if Powerpoint is in Slideshow mode, the FLV Player starts, and then disappears immediately under the Slideshow…so is there a way to have FLV Player always stay on top, as a default?

    Thanks

  77. Covert Ops says:

    It would be great if the player would try to play files with the .flv removed from the name. I want to drag and drop flv file without the filetype extention. Example…’do you want the player to try to play the file?’

  78. Eric says:

    The player looks and works great. There is small one thing, though–the total running time is not displayed correctly if it’s an hour or more. Maybe there aren’t a lot of files that big, but it should be easy to deal with.

  79. William says:

    still playlist support is not available in 2.0.24
    quite disappointing

  80. burningbush says:

    I’d like to second William’s (from Hongkong) call for adding the feature to load m3u playlists. VLC Media Player can do this with m3u playlists that contain a list of flv files, and it would be great if FLV Player would also.

    Thank you!

  81. Eric says:

    hey when u release the next version will you include a repeat button
    and a list of playing songs

  82. Hanzl says:

    My favorite FLV player.
    Neat and compact..:)

    Found a little “bug”.
    When selecting “Windows Behavior” it doesnt mark your choice.
    It says “Standard Windows Behavior”.
    No matter what you choose.
    No big deal, just a “schoonheidsfoutje”..:)

  83. John says:

    Nice player, but has a killer bug for me - on a two-monitor setup, I can’t keep it on my second monitor. It presumably has some clever code that pops it back on screen if it slips off the side. It’s making the wrong calls though, so on any resize on the second monitor, or if I drop a new video onto it, it flips back to monitor #1.

  84. Future request please says:

    A future request please, a brightness funktion, to be able to change the brightness if the movie is to dark

    other than that, great player

  85. Jobs Meng says:

    thank for software from China

  86. Zoey says:

    Hi, do you have a FLV player that is Vista x64 ?
    I am looking for a 64 bit version of this software,
    and can not find it.

    I do NOT want to use x86 version in my x64 platform OS.
    people keep telling me to just install it and that it works,
    I understand that it works, but its NOT what I want.

    So I came here in hopes that the author can actually make a version for
    x64 bit OS platform users.

    This way my system programs all remain 64 bit and NOT
    used by Hybrid x86 on x64 platform.

    thank you very much.
    Love the program by the way. :D

  87. s says:

    Thank You very much

  88. Alvin Liuson says:

    Awesome FLV player. Thanks so much.

  89. Q says:

    Excellent player as always! Keep it up!

    Few things - 1. Every so often it seems to try to contact a server, even though the update setting is off? 2. A playlist or playing of a group of files would be very useful for multi-part vids.

  90. Veovis says:

    Seems to be a great app, but for one big problem I’m having. FLV Player will close for no apparent reason. Sometimes it closes after only one second of being open, sometimes it takes approx. 10 seconds. Other times it seems fine for nearly a minute, but it NEVER fails to just crash. It happens regardless of whether or not I’ve loaded an .flv file, or just opened the program and let it sit. I understand this may not be the players fault, but does anyone have any idea what would cause this? It’s extremely frustrating. I’ve even installed the latest adobe flash again, but it made no difference. Anyway, thanks in advance for any suggestions/help

  91. marosy says:

    Thank you for your outstanding work.

  92. xot says:

    Great player, but I have the same problem as #609; I really wish this had better support for dual monitors. It would also be nice if it worked with digital video adjustment filters provided with GPU drivers, but I suppose that is up to Adobe.

  93. xot says:

    One more thing: any web links in the application should open the user’s default browser (which may not be Internet Explorer).

  94. Dave S. says:

    Are there any command line options? It would be great if I could write a batch file to run FLV Player with a certain file, fullscreen from a start time to and end time. That way I can create a presentation of multiple videos glued together that play the sequences that I want.

  95. Dexter says:

    FLV Player has a problem on playing audio-only content FLV files. The main window will disappear (actually resized to a pixel size).

  96. Dexter says:

    The FLV player should clean up the mprojector directory in Temp after closing.

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