Tuesday, September 9, 2008

How to Play YouTube Videos (FLV) Offline?

free flv player - open flv files YouTube is becoming more popular among web users for its convenience and abundance. You can find various types of videos on it, for example music video, funny video, and news. However have you ever thought of playing these videos offline when you can not log on Internet? This tutorial will introduce you how to play YouTube videos offline step by step.

What is FLV?
FLV stands for "Flash Video". It is a format designed for web video playback that offers high rates of compression and produces high quality video. FLV is becoming more and more popular on the web since it can easily be embedded in a webpage and is supported by the main operating systems via the Adobe Flash Player and web-browser plugin. At present, FLV is the file format widely used by some famous websites, such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, etc.

Commonly FLV files contain video bit streams which are a variant of the H.263 video standard, under the name of Sorenson Spark. Flash Player 8 and newer revisions support the playback of On2 TrueMotion VP6 video bit streams. On2 VP6 can provide a higher visual quality than Sorenson Spark, especially when using lower bit rates. On the other hand it is computationally more complex and therefore will not run as well on certain older system configurations.

Step-1: Download FLV
You can find different types of Free flv downloaders on the Internet. In general, there are three types - browser extension or add-on, web application, and windows program. You can choose any of them to download flv files.
Recommend Free FLV download software:
  • Moyea FLV Downloader
  • ImTOO Download YouTube Video
  • Apowersoft YouTube downloader
  • UltraGet Video Downloader
  • Amaze FLV Downloader


Step-2: Download and Install FLV Player
You can get free Aunsoft FLV Player from this URL.
Follow the wizard to install FLV Player in your computer.

Step-3: Play FLV with Aunsoft FLV Player
There are three ways to open and play a flv file.

  • Double click the *.flv file
  • Drag and drop *.flv file into the player window
  • Click File and click the Open option.