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5 Portable Standalone Free FLV Players to Play FLV File Anywhere

vbb — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:44:15 +0000

You may have the best FLV player installed on your computer but sometimes you need to play an FLV file sitting on a cyber cafe or a friend’s computer which does not have an FLV player.

So here are 5 free FLV players which you can carry anywhere on your USB drive and enjoy FLV files anywhere.

FLV Players-Standalone Portable players

Here are 5 FLV players which you can install/take into your USB pen drive.Hence you will never have any problem playing FLV files where any FLV player is not installed.

1.FLV player from martijndevisser.com

Download here - [4.75MB Exe]

Download and install this player on your computer.Now copy all the files from the installation folder to your USB drive.Or you can directly install it on the USB drive to make it portable.Whenever you need to play an FLV file ,just run FLVplayer.exe.This player supports keyboard shortcuts and full screen view .

2.Riva FLV player by Rivavx.com

Same installation Process.

Download from here.[2.3 MB exe]

3.Freez FLV player from Freezsoft.com

Again the process is same..It’s damn small in size.Just 816KB.Get it if you want a really small player.

Download the player from here

4.Easy FLV player by HiHisoft

The process is exactly same as above.

Download from Download.com [2.12MB Exe]

5.Wimpy FLV player

This player is truly portable as it does not need any installation unlike the other payer mentioned above and you have to just extract the downloaded ZIP folder [2.55MB] onto you USB Pen drive.

It can also play common audio files and Video (MPEG 4 ) files such as MP4 and also 3gp.

The player also works on Mac.This one is my favorite and I use it for playing FLV files on my computer.

Download it from the official website .

Also have a look at the previously explained FLV player.And Enjoy FLV files.

VLC Media Player Reaches Milestone (v 1.0.0)-Download Now!

vbb — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:52 +0000

Fans of VLC Media Player know that for how long it was also hovering around versions such as 0.9.2,0.9.8 and so on.Now we finally have version 1.0 of the best media player around.

This versatile media player is capable of playing almost all media formats without the need of any external codec.The great networking features of this player allows it to stream videos over the network.It has so many features that I call it a tool instead of just a media player.Congratulations to the VideoLAN community for the version 1.0.0

VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye

Version 1.0.0 has been christened GoldenEye.

Only to remind you VLC media player has following main features which also includes features included in the latest version-

It’s Open Source and FREE.
Cross Platform-It works on Windows,Mac,Linux and so on.
Codec Free viewing–For most of the video formats ,you will not need a codec-if you play it using VLC media player.
Live recording and streaming
Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
Support for HD codec (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video and so on)
It also has all the common features of media players such as full screen view,media management ,subtitle support, skins and so on.

To fully appreciate the features you must use this tool.You can alo refer to official wiki on their site linked below.

Download VLC Media Player 1.0.0 Now

How to Convert Videos for Nokia 5800 or Nokia N97 or Any Media Player

vbb — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:12:18 +0000

It’s a pleasant experience to watch videos on Nokia 5800 or Nokia N97.Both sport a 640×360 resolution screen with 16 million colors to render great video.

You may have a little difficulty in playing all the videos you have on your computer due to various compatibility issues so it’s best to convert videos to suit the needs of your mobile ,be it Nokia 5800 or Nokia N97.Here is a Freeware program which can effortlessly convert your great videos to make them playable on your mobile,PSP,WII or any portable device.

Quick Media Converter to Convert All Your Videos

After you install this software ,be sure to change the menu language to English from the default German one.QMC has two modes of working –An easy mode and and advanced one.In easy mode.

You have selectable presets of video formats to choose from.It will automatically format the video for the target device.You just have to select videos to be converted. The downside of the program is obvious from a single glance–confusing menu.So I have marked the menu in the following picture(thankfully the present version gives tooltip when hovered upon menu).

As it is evident from the picture ,the program can convert almost all types of media formats.Here I have chosen MP4 format for iPod with custom resize option and have selected width of 640 and height of 360 to fit the screen resolution of Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97.

In expert mode you have various advanced options to explore such as choosing frame rate,bit rate ,codec etc.

The best part of the program is that it has various selectable pretest and hence can convert videos for iPod,Iphone,Xbox,PSP,WII high resolution,Nintendo DS and any portable media player easily and at NO cost.No more waiting- just download the program and get ready to watch your favorite music video on the go with Nokia 5800 or Nokia N97.

Download Quick Media Converter