How to play FLV files with VLC Media Player?

Guide on playing FLV files with VLC Media Player.

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In the morden society.There are a plenty of video formats.Have you encounter such problem that you have a flv file. But you don't know how to play it.

FLV is a proprietary file format that mainly delivers video content over the Internet. Specifically, the video stream included can be a variant of the H.263 standard or the much more advanced On2 VP6 codec. Video from YouTube or Metacafe use a simplified H.263, commonly refereed to as FLV1 and FLV4 (YouTube uses both, depending on what video it is, Metacafe and others use FLV4).

If you want to play your flv file. You can use Vlc media player. It is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It can play MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and DVDs, VCDs, Audio CDs and so on. Now your problem will be solved with vlc media player. Vlc media player can support format of flv directly.

Guide on playing FLV with vlc media player.

Make sure that you have downloaded vlc media player, and installed it.

Method 1: Right click your .wmv file, open the "Open way", choose "vlc media player".

Method 2: Make vlc media player running. Click "Media", choose "Open File...", then find you .flv file.

Method 3: Open vlc media player. Click "Advanced Open File..". In the File Selection pannel, click "Add" button, find your wmv file. Your flv file will appear in the text box. Then click "Play" button on the bottom of this dialog box.



You can play flv files use these three methods. It is quite easy to use.You also can play other formats with vlc media, such as wmv, avi, and so on. Guide on playing flv files can help you to know how to play flv files with vlc media player.