Good FLV Player

Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

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Brad wrote:

Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.



VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I use the free Riva FLV Player
http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?id=422
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"Brad" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC.

(Brad) wrote in
:

Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows
95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

Not sure you are aware that these files can not/will not be
saved "for viewing offline" without either a few Firefox addons
or unless you are using Opera in which case they are in the
cache with a tmp or swf extension. Rename them and move them to
a video directory.

I was not aware VLC plays flv's, but Riva is the best of about 5
or so players I tried.



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reality.

"Brad" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad



Brad:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/nFLVPlayer.html

nFLVPlayer is just the thing.

Mike

You can try KeepTube from RuntimeChecker Corp.
It can download videos from YouTube and play .FLV files offline.
http://www.keeptube.runtimechecker.com

Regards,
Frank


On Jul 16, 7:42 am, (Brad) wrote:
Hi,

I am looking for a goodFLV(YouTube)playerfor Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLVfiles offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC.

(Brad) wrote in
:

Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows
95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

AFAIK, the only browser that saves the flv files (which are
designed for streaming ONLY) is Opera, with swf or tmp, in its
cache.

Rename them to *.flv, move them to "my flicks" or whatever, and
use Riva FLV player to watch them.

Someone mentioned VLC can play FLV as well but I haven't
bothered to verify that.


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"...for the force that circles the earth most times in a second
is not electricity but pain."
- M.P.

(Brad) wrote in
:

Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows
95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in
your PC.


I like zoom player at

http://www.inmatrix.com/

with the open source flv splitter at

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FLV_Splitter

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(Brad) wrote in
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Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for Windows
95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

AFAIK, the only browser that saves the flv files (which are
designed for streaming ONLY) is Opera, with swf or tmp, in its
cache.

They can be found, with a little effort, when using Firefox or IE6 with Windows XP,
and I imagine also with Win98 but I have not tested it there yet.

With IE6, the file is stored in the cache (Temporary Internet Files, by default),
but does not appear to be visible there till the streaming video viewing is
completed. The file has no extension, and is just listed as filetype "File". You
have to go by the file size and date. The one I just viewed left a file about 22MB
in the IE cache, with a name:
"getvideo?video_id=###########"

When viewing YouTube (flv) streaming videos with either Opera or Firefox, the file
does not appear in the browser's cache, but in my system's %temp% folder, with a
name like "fla ###.tmp"

This is when using Windows XP, and in Win98 it may well put the file in the browser
cache instead, with the .tmp or .swf extension. Try it and let us know.


Rename them to *.flv, move them to "my flicks" or whatever, and
use Riva FLV player to watch them.

Actually, you may need to COPY them to another location and *then* rename them, as
they may be "in use" in their current location....and may disappear before you can
copy them, if you move away from the browser page or close the browser window that
originally opened them. Again, this probably is not an issue with Win98.


Someone mentioned VLC can play FLV as well but I haven't
bothered to verify that.

Yes, it can, but it's been a while since I used it and don't know what options it
gives. I've been using Riva's player (on your recommendation, believe it or not),
but I don't like its inability to switch to full-screen.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

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(Brad) wrote in
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Hi,

I am looking for a good FLV (YouTube) player for
Windows 95/98 that
I can use to view .FLV files offline.

Thanks in advance, Brad

AFAIK, the only browser that saves the flv files (which
are designed for streaming ONLY) is Opera, with swf or
tmp, in its cache.

They can be found, with a little effort, when using Firefox
or IE6 with Windows XP, and I imagine also with Win98 but I
have not tested it there yet.

With IE6, the file is stored in the cache (Temporary
Internet Files, by default), but does not appear to be
visible there till the streaming video viewing is
completed. The file has no extension, and is just listed
as filetype "File". You have to go by the file size and
date. The one I just viewed left a file about 22MB in the
IE cache, with a name: "getvideo?video_id=###########"

When viewing YouTube (flv) streaming videos with either
Opera or Firefox, the file does not appear in the browser's
cache, but in my system's %temp% folder, with a name like
"fla ###.tmp"

This is when using Windows XP, and in Win98 it may well put
the file in the browser cache instead, with the .tmp or
.swf extension. Try it and let us know.

I hope you're addressing the OP here because my 98 machine has
no internet capability and my 95B machine (this one) may or may
not have a VERY old version of IE on it but I'm not running it
no matter what.

Rename them to *.flv, move them to "my flicks" or
whatever, and use Riva FLV player to watch them.

Actually, you may need to COPY them to another location and
*then* rename them, as they may be "in use" in their
current location....and may disappear before you can copy
them, if you move away from the browser page or close the
browser window that originally opened them. Again, this
probably is not an issue with Win98.

Once the "streaming" has finished completely you should be able
to do anything with the file, under any OS, unless XP (etc) is
even weirder than I think.

Someone mentioned VLC can play FLV as well but I haven't
bothered to verify that.

Yes, it can, but it's been a while since I used it and
don't know what options it gives. I've been using Riva's
player (on your recommendation, believe it or not),

(a warm toasty feeling spreads slowly in the area a thanatoid is
presumed to have a heart...)

but I
don't like its inability to switch to full-screen.

After a LOT of searching, I have tried about 6 or 7 players (I
may have already said that in the post you refer to) but they
were all a lot worse - not that RIVA is perfect, it has a few
little annoyances as well, but they're no nearly as bad.

AFA full screen, flv's would look like crap on fullscreen. The
only reason is that we, the great unwashed, are still getting
access to them is that quality-wise they are not unlike a
cassette recording with some Polaroids of the TV screen. Trust
me, you're not missing a thing.

--
"...for the force that circles the earth most times in a second
is not electricity but pain."
- M.P.