FLV Player 2.0 released
I 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!
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October 14th, 2007 at 17:12
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
October 16th, 2007 at 3:55
been waiting for this
thanks a lot !
October 17th, 2007 at 15:45
It’s very useful!
But could you please add srt support?
Thanks!
October 18th, 2007 at 8:04
standard shortcut for fullscreen (and back) is Alt-Enter. Perhaps you might want to use that, too.
October 19th, 2007 at 7:51
Just downloaded v.2 which is very good.
October 20th, 2007 at 1:01
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.
October 20th, 2007 at 14:47
How can i save a video from the flv to my computer?
October 21st, 2007 at 8:23
Why can’t I move forward and backward with the arrow keys, like in Winamp?
I was waiting for that in v2.0
…
October 21st, 2007 at 12:35
FLV Player Version 2.0 Build 22 veröffentlicht…
Weiterempfehlen
……
October 21st, 2007 at 19:08
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.
October 23rd, 2007 at 20:57
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
October 28th, 2007 at 16:53
Are there a loop function ? I think it’s very usefull, but i can’t find it :/
October 29th, 2007 at 1:35
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
October 30th, 2007 at 1:35
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!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:09
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!!
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:16
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.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:21
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.
November 6th, 2007 at 4:52
Does 2.0 load OVER 1.3.3?
Or
Does 1.3.3 have to be removed before loading 2.0?
November 6th, 2007 at 8:50
@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
November 6th, 2007 at 11:11
[...] recently updated FLV Player 2.0 continues to be my number one without any doubt. I guess that it’s the number one in [...]
November 9th, 2007 at 21:41
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!
November 11th, 2007 at 20:21
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.
November 12th, 2007 at 20:08
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.
November 15th, 2007 at 17:49
Great! But could you please add a “loop song” button ?
Cheers
Marco
November 16th, 2007 at 1:57
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!
November 18th, 2007 at 17:46
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.
November 19th, 2007 at 17:08
cool!
it doesn’t display foreign characters, tho.
November 19th, 2007 at 21:15
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
November 20th, 2007 at 3:10
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
November 20th, 2007 at 6:25
[...] FLV Player 2.0 release [...]
November 20th, 2007 at 15:03
Great little player
It can even be run from a USB flash drive.
November 20th, 2007 at 15:27
@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!
November 21st, 2007 at 22:47
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.
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:10
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…
November 22nd, 2007 at 23:32
I’m also having a problem with the rtmp streams not working in 2.0, while they worked just fine in 1.3.
November 25th, 2007 at 20:17
Hi, i use your flv player but the volum is very low, is possible introduce the high volume ?
November 26th, 2007 at 1:59
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
November 27th, 2007 at 16:41
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.
November 27th, 2007 at 23:05
Like the implementation of resizing windows!
Bug - tried to save settings, but none will save for me.
November 28th, 2007 at 14:29
Haja, i wanta ask somethin.
There was a site where u could turn youtube links in FLV documents.
I NEED ID!!!
November 29th, 2007 at 15:09
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
November 30th, 2007 at 21:32
I really love FLV Player v.2.0 build 23.
Thank you Martijn.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:46
I wish there was a playlist available…
December 6th, 2007 at 9:45
If there will be playlist, it will be my favourite player
December 7th, 2007 at 19:47
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
December 8th, 2007 at 12:37
Good Player!
Where can i find a detailed userguide or documentation?
is it supporting playlist now?
December 11th, 2007 at 17:01
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
December 13th, 2007 at 5:56
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
December 20th, 2007 at 4:40
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
December 20th, 2007 at 15:18
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!
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:33
Grateful if you would enhance the functionality of flv player to open .m3u playlist (ASCII playlist). Thankyou and Regards,
William,
Hongkong,
December 27th, 2007 at 22:30
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
December 27th, 2007 at 23:28
With YouTube videos (Ctrl+V URL) I only get the âfailed to loadâ error message.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:09
@ 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.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:08
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
January 4th, 2008 at 21:38
Wow - please just make it in Adobe AIR
BTW your captcha is impossible
January 12th, 2008 at 16:56
Nice job, dude!
This is the best FLV player ever.
Thanks for this outstanding software.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:56
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
January 13th, 2008 at 8:30
How do i download files from youtube to my desktop so i can play them on the FLV player. Thanks.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:34
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
January 20th, 2008 at 14:38
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?)
January 20th, 2008 at 16:44
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.
January 21st, 2008 at 13:11
??????? ???????!!! Big thanx!!!
January 21st, 2008 at 21:52
Thanks Martijn for the new version.
Full screen is greatly appreciated!
January 24th, 2008 at 22:20
When wil there be a FLV player for windows mobile?
January 24th, 2008 at 22:24
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?
February 2nd, 2008 at 14:14
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.
February 2nd, 2008 at 18:15
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.
February 3rd, 2008 at 23:37
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?
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Also information that you can use
page like http://www.keepvid.com to download FLV
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February 4th, 2008 at 9:54
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.
February 11th, 2008 at 15:17
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
February 11th, 2008 at 22:59
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.
February 13th, 2008 at 21:44
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?
February 14th, 2008 at 7:59
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.
February 17th, 2008 at 3:54
Any plans to make this able to stream .mp4 files? It won’t recognize the URL when I try to paste it.
February 22nd, 2008 at 15:23
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 22:12
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?’
February 26th, 2008 at 5:45
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.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:04
still playlist support is not available in 2.0.24
quite disappointing
March 9th, 2008 at 20:26
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!
March 10th, 2008 at 0:26
hey when u release the next version will you include a repeat button
and a list of playing songs
March 10th, 2008 at 12:16
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”..:)
March 12th, 2008 at 13:23
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.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:36
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
March 16th, 2008 at 15:33
thank for software from China
March 19th, 2008 at 4:36
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.
March 25th, 2008 at 14:52
Thank You very much
March 26th, 2008 at 18:46
Awesome FLV player. Thanks so much.
March 29th, 2008 at 19:24
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.
March 30th, 2008 at 0:59
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
March 30th, 2008 at 11:44
Thank you for your outstanding work.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:56
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.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:00
One more thing: any web links in the application should open the user’s default browser (which may not be Internet Explorer).
March 31st, 2008 at 16:33
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.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:03
FLV Player has a problem on playing audio-only content FLV files. The main window will disappear (actually resized to a pixel size).
April 14th, 2008 at 2:21
The FLV player should clean up the mprojector directory in Temp after closing.