What is FLV?

FLV stands for FLASH VIDEO. FLV video format was introduced by Macromedia Inc and now maintained and owned by Adobe Corportion. FLV is today's most popular video format mostly used on Internet. People prefer/use this format to publish their videos on world wide web. Videos turn out to be very lightweight in size when converted to FLV.

What is FLV Player?

FLV Player: Flash Video is not a format recognized by Windows Media Player, WinAMP or other very well known media play back software (natively/by default). But some new software such as Sothink FLV Player for playing FLV on your local PC, have come into existance after the huge popularity of FLV format. Since FLV is mostly used for web, the major platform that accomodates and plays the FLV format is Adobe Flash Player for your Browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Safari, etc). Flash Player hosts premade SWF (Shockwave Flash) files, so the FLV Player for web we are talking about, is basically a SWF file, that loads and plays FLV files from remote location. Adobe Flash Player is a plugin that is installed on demand and embedded into browser. To view Flash contents a user must have Adobe Flash Player for browswer installed, in order to play FLV videos.