Little bit about FLV movie format

oHi all,

Something new this time. Rather than talking about hardware or software, lets get down more detailed on a movie format. I am sure many of you know the classic movie format such as MPG/MPEG4 or AVI and also Windows's own movie format WMV. But how many of you guys are aware of NEW movie format that tackle almost 50% of internet's movie website? Most online streaming video providers are now facing force of technology to roll back their stupid WMV or RM (Real Player Movie) online streaming videos to replace with new FLV format. FLV refers to Flash Video format. This is wonderful and i promise you that this is much stable that RM (Real Player Movie) and 10 times better than the Window's stupid WMV which never stable for most users including me. FLV became famous as the YouTube managed to crack the world with their online video clip streaming capability which never as stupid as other online streamers because they are not using WMV or RM but eventually using FLV. FLV is Flash compactible and works with flash plugin to control the move time (including rewind/forwarding the movie).

And the good news is that This FLV player do not force you to install Real Player or Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime but it works stable wit any additional softwares except Flash Plugin. If you web browser can load and play flash (SWF) then it can also load this FLV movies online and stream it live. The example site are YouTube.com and DailyMotion.com.

But somehow, if you managed to download those FLV files because some people prefer to keep the video files offline in their hard disk to use it anytime without need of internet connection then you will need to install a local player in your computer to play the FLV files. If you have no idea on how to download the streaming videos from YouTube or Google or DailyMotion? Then i suggest you to visit : http://keepvid.com/ which will definately help you by providing straight link to download the streaming video into FLV format.

After you download into your hard disk, you can't access it that so fast. No software in your computer will support this new type of video format even the Real Player and Windows Media Player also cannot play this format. There are several software players available for you to play FLV including FLVPlayer and nFLVplayer. I had tried them both and also other software. But all of them do not make me happy because i cannot have PLAYLIST to play many movies continuesly and also they provide me poor quality of video.

The best accidental shot that i gave was installing K-Lite Codecs. I did not install it for FLV but i just wanted my notebook to be having all the latest Audio/Video codecs as i can work better on encoding and decoding. This K-Lite codecs definately suprised me as they came with FLV Codec which has the capability of playing this FLV movies in good quality(the original FLV quality) even in full screen and the best part of it that they do provide PLAYLIST for me to play the movies continuosly. The software that attached together with k-lite codec version 3.01 is Media Player Classic. This player is really classy!!! Believe me, this player worth of using it as it is free open source and preforms very good in player all(or most i could say) movie/audio formats including Divx, AVI, MPEG4, VCD, DAT, MPG, RM, WMV, FLV, and many many more. They can be classified as UNIVERSAL MEDIA PLAYER. They provide full pack of codecs which makes our pc up to date.

Now my comment is download K-Lite Codecs (latest version up to now is 3.20) to play most audio/video format including FLV which is latest format that cracking down internet world. Use Keepvid.com to download streaming movies from YouTube, DailyMotion, Google and many more website.

Good luck all. FLV worth of downloading as it is more compact size compare to other video format and it will give you a compatitive quality. Ok then. Until my next blog, bye all.