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Playing .flv files in Winamp

In order to get Winamp to play flv files the nature of flv files must be understood. The FLV, or Flash Video, format is a file format essentially developed to supply to user's video content via the internet. It found its initial use as the major format utilized by Macromedia Flash Player which has since become Adobe Flash Player. Despite this, FLV still sticks to certain video coding standards of which the most common FLV standard is H.263. Other standards include On2 TrueMotion VP6. Due to this, in order to get any Media Player to be able to play FLV files it is only required that they be able to play the format in which said videos are encoded in. The process for enabling Winamp to play said formats will herein be detailed.

Playing .flv files in Windows Media player

Once again, in order to get Windows Media player to play flv files the nature of flv files must be understood. The FLV, or Flash Video, format is a file format essentially developed to supply to user's video content via the internet. It found its initial use as the major format utilized by Macromedia Flash Player which has since become Adobe Flash Player. Despite this, FLV still sticks to certain video coding standards of which the most common FLV standard is H.263. Other standards include On2 TrueMotion VP5 and On2 TrueMotion VP5. Due to this, in order to get any Media Player to be able to play FLV files it is only required that they be able to play the format in which said videos are encoded in. The process for enabling Windows Media Player to play said formats will herein be detailed.

The first task is to dowload the utility named FFDshow, which can be found here. Then, once downloaded, begin installing it and when given a prompt to select components make sure the VFW interface component is ticked. Following this, a select additional tasks option will arise. In this section, make sure the following standards have a tick next to them:

FLV1, FLV4, H263
FLV1, FLV4
H263
VP5, VP6
Mp3

Following this, make sure that under the column with the title Decoder and next to the above mentioned video formats the option libavcodec is selected. This may already have enabled a few media players to play flv files, but more is required for windows media player. You must download an flv splitter, one entitled open flv splitter can be found here. Install this, which should be relatively simple, then try running an FLV file using windows media player. A prompt may arise stating that it is not a supported media type and if you still wish to play it, click yes. If all has worked Windows Media player should now be playing flv files.