Comments on: Good FLV Players?

Question: Good FLV Players?

Firas — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:05:00 -0800

Looking for a web-based FLV player (ideally want it to approximate the youtube one.) For-pay is fine. The usage has to be just 'pass your flv url to the player and it plays' (ie. not something that requires manipulation in Macromedia Flash to work.) Any pointers? Thanks.

By: headspace

headspace — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:52:04 -0800

I like FLV player. Simple, small, and clean.

By: rjt

rjt — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:10:17 -0800

I use mediamp at the moment, but I keep meaning to test Jeroen Wijering's one. (Not least because of the nicer chrome.) The only commercial product I can remember at the moment is wimpy.

(and Firas is looking for a web-based player, rather than a locally installed app)

By: rjt

rjt — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:16:01 -0800

There also appear to be various flvplay.swf and flvplayer.swf apps to google for more information on.

By: Firas

Firas — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:37:28 -0800

I think someone could make a relatively easy killing by doing a pixel-by-pixel recreation of the google/youtube/etc. players.

By: anildash

anildash — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:38:53 -0800

YouTube used to use the Wijering player for quite some time, and it works pretty well. I'm not sure if we use it in Vox, but we certainly considered it, and it does just take an FLV to make it work.