What Are FLV Files?
FLV is the short name for flash video, and it is the most widely used format for watching videos online. When online users visit websites that require flash files to play videos or moving images, the website will ask them to download a plug-in, if it's not installed in their browser.
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What Are FLV Files?
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FLV files are a popular online video format that is used by almost all video sharing websites. Flash video can also be found on news sites and personal blogs. This rich format will allow you to rip audio, watch a movie frame by frame and split or join videos.
Advantages of FLV Flash Video
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Thousands of websites choose to use the FLV format because it offers a lot more features than other file extensions. Users can create a quick production that can be posted online, and viewed via the Internet and shared with colleagues in a very short amount of time. Posting videos to websites such as YouTube is fast and easy because the FLV is easy to convert into a small file. Old computers will have very little trouble, playing an FLV file because they do not use a lot of system resources.
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Streaming Video
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FLV is sometimes called streaming video because viewers do not have to download a whole movie before pressing play. Large pieces of the video files are downloaded, and are available for viewing as the rest of the video processes.
How to Play FLV Files
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Most FLV files are viewed online at websites such as Youtube, but flash videos can be downloaded to a computer. Real Player and Windows Media Player, are two programs that are capable of playing FLV files, but other programs like VLC Player, were created specifically for the use of the FLV format.
Conversion
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Once an FLV file has been downloaded from online, there is no way to view it on portable media players such as a Zune or Video iPod without converting it to an accepted file format. Converters such as "Super" can be used to turn the flash video files into an MP3 or movie file.
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