FLV Viewer - 0.4

I try this. It works well. But I think VLC is the best.
And FLV is not compatible with iPod, need to <a href="http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/flv-converter-mac.html">convert FLV to iPod</a> to use FLV.

First I'd like to express my appreciation for developing in this field for OS X and making a dedicated Flash movie player.

However, all people who experience stuttering and lagging after some time with this player, try VLC 0.8.5. Even though it gives an error message when opening .flv movies, it plays them just fine and smoothly even on my 400 MHz G3. I've got no idea how they achieved this, while all other players, incl. FLV player and XinePlayer stutter or have problems with the audio. It just works :-)

Bad interface and I couldn't get it to load the flv's I have. Useless to me.

The good thing is that it play the files I've thrown at it, but there are a few caveats:

• Its method of scanning a folder instead of handling files in a normal manner is profoundly inconvenient.

• It doesn't accept files dropped on it, and .flv files assigned to it in the Finder's Get Info panel receive no icons.

• It can't handle Japanese filenames, not only displaying them as gobbledegook in its list, but also refusing to play them until they're renamed.

If the author would give it a normal user interface and let it access files like a regular application, this would be convenient to use. As it is, it's just useable.

I have an earlier version that works quite nicely. I somehow deleted the newest and when I went to download it again it seems the site has exceeded the bandwidth limit. I looked around and couldn't find a mirror. Anyways, it appears the latest version of Mplayer OSX also plays flv files (both youtube and google). Hope the site is back soon!