Standalone app (AIR?) for playing local FLV files

Can someone point me to a desktop app (Windows and Mac) that can play local FLV files?
Thanks!

I don't know about an AIR application but you could make any Flash video player you want to create into a stand-alone simply by publishing it as a "Projector" file. So create your own custom player and include your own branding in the design.
Or does this need to have a "browse to file" capability? Have never added that to a vid player so I'm not sure how that would work out.
But here is a simple little .flv video editor that I sometimes use to check out video files:
http://download.cnet.com/Moyea-FLV-Editor-Lite/3000-2168_4-10912717.html
It's a video editor, not just a player... but it's free, and allows you to open and play .flv files.... maybe a temp solution ??
Best wishes,
Adninjastrato

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Hello,
Here is another question regarding FLV files: I'm developing my AIR application using Dreamweaver. My app will need to play some local FLV files wich will be delivered together with the application (they are not online).
I'm using the built in feature of Dreamwever, wich creates a small SWF called "FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" when you insert an FLV in the page. If I preview the page in Firefox, everything works fine and the video is played, but if I preview it in AIR, there is just a blank box where the video should be.
All the files are in the site's root folder and are included in the "AIR application settings" (FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf, Clear_Skin_2.swf, video.flv, index.html and application.xml).
I tryed importing the video in Flash (through progressive download) and then creating a small SWF wich would work only as a player but it didn't work either. The only way it worked was if I actually embedded the video in the SWF (so there is no external file), but then I have some audio synchronization problems and I loose quality...
So the problem seems to be that AIR doesn't allow the SWF file to access external files, even if they are in the same folder. Is this a bug or is there a workaroud?
Regards,
Manuel

Well, I just spent a few hour trying to make this work, and still nothing... but I think I know now what the problem is.
As you said, after putting an absolute path in (I used "C:\video.flv" for testing) it worked fine! So what I did was create a code that would get the absolute path to the video located in the app-storage folder. I came up with the following:
var flvFile = air.File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("data/flv/video.flv");
var flvFilePath = flvFile.nativePath;
This code returns flvFilePath as "C:\Documents and Settings\Manuel\Application Data\Test.08196269638DC859464A7A09369FF97BAC18DD7A.1\Local Store\data\flv\video.flv".
I tried suplying this path to the player but it didn't work. So I inserted a new player in Dreamweaver using the path above and I got a message saying that the path can't have any spaces. This seems to be the cause of all my problems! I tried substituting the spaces with "%20" but it didn't work either.
Do you have any ideas?

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Add the directory/file of the swf to the Global Flash Player Trust directory. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9 b90204-7c95.html
Add the directory/file of the swf to the Trusted Location Settings in the Local Settings Manager.http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlayer/LSM/WS6aa5ec234ff3f285139dc56112e3786b68c-7ff0.htm l#WS6aa5ec234ff3f285139dc56112e3786b68c-7fea
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Can someone please tell me how to make a web page play a .flv file.
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I am trying to find a way to play another flv file in between
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hhhzzz wrote:
> I am new to flash. Can the Adobe Flash player play an
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> directly?
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I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm not affiliated w/ the developer, just a happy user that gave up fighting the apple podcast app a while ago. I used to have a bunch of smart playlists in itunes for my podcasts, and come home every day and pathologically synced my phone as soon as I walked in the door, and again before I walked out the door in the morning.
Since my wife was doing this too, we were fighting over who's turn it was to sync their phone.
Since I've switched to Downcast, I no longer worry about syncing my phone to itunes at all. I can go weeks between syncs.
Setup a "playlist" in downcast (ex., "Commute") and add podcasts to that playlist. Add another playlist ("walk" or "workout") and add different podcasts to that one.
Set podcast priorities on a per-feed basis (ex., high priority for some daily news feeds, medium priority for some favorite podcasts, lower priority for other stuff). Downcast will play the things in the priority you specify, and within that priority, it will play in date order (oldest to newest).
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Thanks kglad.com. I will try this and see if it works. Can you check my code a bit to see if it's right?
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>I cannot play published Authorware files in the Internet
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> local computer. I get error messages "invalid map files
etc". The
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Hello,
I've made and extensive research on the forum about this one but couldnt resolve it here, so i've came up with my own case.
I can only make a swf video to work on a DW page using the insert/media procedure. The flv file shows as a blank window not even the player is showing.
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Standalone app (AIR?) for playing local FLV files

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