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nFLVPlayer latest version (1.4.0.96) |
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nFLVPlayer - standalone FlashVideo (FLV) player for windows
I wrote this program because I needed a decent flash video(.flv) player and there was none to satisfy my requirements.
It's built around macromedia flash ActiveX control and that control does decode the video so compliance is 100% guaranteed (it supports all codecs your installed flash player supports like sorenson, On2 VP6 etc).
nFLVPlayer plays Flash Video (tm) format also known as .flv. This format provides the best available compression out there through the VP6 codec(and h264/mp4 with latest versions). At this time Flash Video is the best format for online video playback ... but it lacks support in other means of usage. A while ago I had to work on an online video streaming service that needed to play flash video and I found out there was no decent standalone player to try my video's quality/size in various setups ... so I wrote this one.
nFLVPlayer can also be used to play videos from most large online sources (like YouTube, Google Video, Pornotube, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion,Collegehumor,LiveClip, Myspace,Blastro , Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, fliqz, AOL, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver,eefoof,Professional Rockstars and many more. ) providing you get the proper URL's.
You can use mozilla firefox extensions(now called Add-ons but still linking to "Get Extensions" WTF?!?) like Ook? Video Ook!, Fast Video Download, Google Video Downloader etc. to get the proper links or download the videos.
This player offers common video player functionality controls. As an addition there is an OSD display, Smoothing function, and most recently accessed files and URL's list.
Since version 1.1+ nFLVPlayer offers fullscreen playback and picture adjustment controls for brightness, contrast, saturation and hue.
You need a flash plugin installed on your system in order for this player to work. The oldest flash version that nFLVPlayer supports is Flash 7 which imposes some limitations and may not play all possible videos because it lacks codecs for the newest. I recommend installing flash 9 or newer as it has quite a lot of improvements in performance.
This player provides superior full screen playback performance compared to other similar players still the performance bottleneck lies in Macromedia(now Adobe)'s poor OS support. As stated above flash player 9 or newer is recommended for better fullscreen performance.
Note that FlashVideo is generally very CPU consuming so heavy bitrate video will need faster CPU accordingly.
UPDATE v 1.4 nFLVPlayer now supports native flash fullscreen :) There is a new mini player controls panel with autohide capability for the fullscreen mode.
There are also video file metadata display and a new video aspect ratio correction feature.
You can see information about the video file including video/audio codec and bitrate, framerate etc. The amount of information available depends on how complete is the information within the video file. FLV metadata can be injected with a third party tool like flvtool.
The new aspect ratio correction feature allows you to explicitly set a video to 4:3 or 16:9 or to fill the screen up to 4:3 or 16:9 by cutting from the sides allowing to fill a screen in the desired proportions without distorting the image.
Also nFLVPlayer now uses a different format and no external .swf file is needed anymore.
It's light. It's fast. It's FREE. Enjoy!
P.S. For the future of nFLVPlayer I'm investigating the idea of making nFLVPlayer a semi-codec for DirectShow which will allow flv video to be played with MediaPlayer and other DirectShow players(maybe even the use of DivX subtitles will be possible) and fullscreen overlay to be used for better rendering efficiency (which Macromedia fail to implement for years now).
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Nikola Dachev |
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1.3.0.61 |
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:36 pm |
| Last Updated: |
Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:04 pm |
| Last Download: |
Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:30 am |
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602.01 KB |
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Not Rated (0 Votes) |
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:01 am Comment subject: bugs... (but still a nice player :) ) |
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| The timeline slider and the fast forward button don't work. |
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nikoladd Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 391 Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:45 pm Comment subject: |
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fastforward and time slider(in forward direction) cannot work if there is no pre-buffered video data.
Is that a local file played or a download?
Please use the forum for bug reporting and feature requests! |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:49 pm Comment subject: Time Slider button not working |
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| I have a local .flv file saved on my hdd, I am not able to use slider control in nFLV player |
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:24 pm Comment subject: Chronic Unspecified Error! |
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The only way I can get a video to play at all is by using the open file dialog; a click by association opens the player but with an "Unspecified Error" message and an "Ok" button.
When I force a video to play this way, it progresses for a fraction of a second, and then the dreaded dialog comes up. If I press the OK button it progresses for a fraction of a second more.
I'm running Windows 2000 SP4. I've tried reinstalling my Flash 9 to no avail.
It seems I'll need to stick with version 1.0.3.28 for now. It's still the best standalone player I've found.
Thank you for making it freely available. |
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:36 pm Comment subject: little too wide |
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It works fine ! flv files are often bad quality and i think the screen is a little too wide. The right size is FLV player but your soft is better . I use both, but you' re in the right way . Thank you for this work FOR FREE !
Minor : the file icon is ugly, please change ! |
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:45 am Comment subject: |
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I installed the programme, but when I start it, it say the Flashplayer components are not installed on my system. But I have installed and re-installed the Macromedia Flash Player!
Thanks. |
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:14 pm Comment subject: |
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| can i define a playlist ? |
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:48 am Comment subject: Windows Vista problem! |
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nFLVPlayer can´t locate Macromedia codecs on Windows Vista
(but they´re installed!) |
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:10 pm Comment subject: |
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| unknown language on earth ... Well , VLC media player reads flv files and allows playlists , but... I dunno why, i prefer nFLV ![/quote] |
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:54 pm Comment subject: |
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| This player used to work well but after a re-install tried it again and now doesn't work because it asks for the flash player to be installed, I have the Macromedia flash player components installed. It seems to me Macromedia has changed something that makes this player unable to play .flv files. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:58 pm Comment subject: |
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Oh also there's no download file on this site.
No comment from the developer? |
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nikoladd Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 391 Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:26 pm Comment subject: broken download |
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The downloads have been down due to a hosting service failure.
The download links are restored now and should work. Thank you for your patience. |
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:35 pm Comment subject: |
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Almost perfect ! With a x2 zoom it would be the best of all. THX ![/quote] |
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:04 pm Comment subject: |
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| Thanks for making this available Nikola |
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:19 am Comment subject: |
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nFLVPlayer 1.2.1.45 can´t locate Macromedia codecs on my Windows XP SP2.
But I have version 9,0,28,0 installed, and work fine! |
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:58 am Comment subject: |
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I also experience the same problem. Have Windows XP, Adobe Player (Macromedia) but nFLV still asks for the Macromedia download.
How can we solve this, Nikola? |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:31 am Comment subject: |
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| You must install Adobe flash player active X or repair it and it should work ... |
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:03 am Comment subject: |
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>The only way I can get a video to play at all is by using the open file dialog; a click by association opens the player but with an "Unspecified Error" message and an "Ok" button.
>Have Windows XP, Adobe Player (Macromedia) but nFLV still asks for the Macromedia download.
I have Win XP and the same problems. The Macromedia Flash is already installed.
I did this and it worked:
1. First UNINSTALL the old version (Start > Control panel > Install/remove progs)
2. Do a clean install of the new version.
If you do not uninstall (i.e. if you just overwrite the old installation) you will have these problems.
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nikoladd Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 391 Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:40 am Comment subject: re: problem with unspecified error |
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| that's a good tip. the problem is that there is a file named flvplay.swf in nFLVPlayer directory. This file has been changed in the last version and because it already exists nFLVPlayer does not update it. Deleting this file and restarting nFLVPlayer should solve that problem. Uninstal deletes this file too, that's why it solves the problem too. Sorry about that should have made a check but when I realised the case it was too late. |
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:13 am Comment subject: |
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Sorry for the missed msg above.
To work properly nFLVPlayer require Flash9b.ocx in your C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash directory.
If there is not, execute FlashUtil.exe and if it tells you
"An update to your Adobe Flash Player is available"
then click "Install".
Now nFLVPlayer work fine on my Win XP SP2.
Update by downloading the Macromedia's site installer... sometime don't update the activex at all.
Thank you Nikola |
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:16 pm Comment subject: |
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your software is great, works perfectly and is alot better than the other .flv players out there. thanks  |
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:02 pm Comment subject: Great player! |
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Hi,
Just wanted to say I like the nFLVPlayer very much, thank you.
One odd thing I noticed after installing the lastest version - the sound OFF/ON button seems to work in reverse on my machine (i.e. sound is produced only when the speaker and red "X" are shown, and vice-versa), compared to an earlier version I was using until today.
Compaq Presario X1000 (Pentium M 1500 MHz) & Windows XP Home SP2
Best wishes,
Nigel |
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:59 pm Comment subject: |
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Hi!
Really nice player you wrote there, 10 out of 10 points!
One option i would love to see though, is a button to tell the player to play the video in the original size, as this seems to be the least power consuming way to play a video, which really makes a difference on older machines.
Bye and thanks for this great freeware!
Steve |
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:08 am Comment subject: |
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I got the same problem with the timeline slider when upgrade from the previous version at the first installation.
I tried to remove the previous version first and installed the the latest version 1.2.1.45. The problem is gone. The timeline slider worked perfectly.
nFLVPlayer definitely the best one in the market. I give it 10 of 10. |
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:59 pm Comment subject: |
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some features that i am missing, just as an inspiration are:
Replay Function, and DirectSound Hardware Acceleration Support, so that i can hear the sound coming out of all boxes if i use the clone option with a 5.1 system
greetings
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:48 pm Comment subject: Flash Macromedia not found error |
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Thank you for the very nice NFLVPlayer and greetings from Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
I had NFLVPlayer working fine for several weeks, then developed problems after I updated Adobe Flash.
I found this forum site and the following explanation of the correction which I followed exactly. Your program "works like a charm" again now!! In other words, it is a really great addition to my computer.
Your explanation and fix that helped were:
To work properly nFLVPlayer require Flash9b.ocx in your C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash directory.
If there is not, execute FlashUtil.exe and if it tells you
"An update to your Adobe Flash Player is available"
then click "Install".
Now nFLVPlayer work fine on my Win XP SP2.
Update by downloading the Macromedia's site installer... sometime don't update the activex at all.
Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.
Marilyn |
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:58 am Comment subject: Feature Request |
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I've been using your player for such a longtime now, and this latest vesion rocks. Great work my friend.
Is it possible if Brightnest, Saturation, Contrast can be added on later version, some of the videos i downloaded from Youtube light hue is not really pleasant, i would would wish to be able to control this.
Also, how bout Film Effect 'Intensity', similar to DivX v6.6 player, it has this option to add noises like effect make it easy on the eyes.
I like your brilliant option, smooth out those big pixels as we in increase the window sizes, none of the of the players that i've tried before has this feature so you stand out and the only one i use. On the older version you allow use to have the option to turn off and on, i would like this option to put back on on next version maybe.
Thanks alot |
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:34 pm Comment subject: |
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Surprised New version 1.2.3.54 seems to freeze when zooming .? Back to
1.1.4.31 and it' s ok for me.
I like your soft yet. Pretty good !
thanks a lot |
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:03 pm Comment subject: Connection Error message |
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Hi Nikola,
Thanks for all the effort, was looking desperately for a program like this. Problem now is when I type in the url, the message keeps saying "Connection Error." Did i do something wrong? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:57 am Comment subject: |
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The best FLV player there is. Thanks!
My only wish is that if yuo click a new flv-file it would open in the same window and not start a new one. Maybe in the future.  |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:27 am Comment subject: |
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Finally I got this FLV player that isn't terrible for a change.. I needed that
Very good program, well done man and thanks!! |
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:24 pm Comment subject: |
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When I try to load a URL, a message at the bottom of the player says "connectionError"
Where does the player get its connection details from?
I could not find anywhere to set up any connection preferences.
I tried the URL with another player and it played OK.
I also added nFLVPlayer to the firewall.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:12 pm Comment subject: Flash Beta 10 |
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Is this program still being maintained?
It is totally incompatible with Flash Beta 10 |
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:20 am Comment subject: History list |
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Thanks for this great player
I have a question. How do I clean the history list?
Thanks again. |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:12 pm Comment subject: |
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| Alas! Problems with Cyrillic filenames... |
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:47 am Comment subject: Recent Flash cannot play FLV files |
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After the recent Flash version 10.0.12.36 , the whole FLV player cannot play any FLV files at all. Can you investigate in that? |
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nikoladd Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 391 Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:38 pm Comment subject: Flash 10 compatibility |
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| I have updated nFLVPlayer to version 1.3.0.61 and it should now work with Flash 10 properly. Some other bugs have been fixed too. Thank you all for your patience. |
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:07 pm Comment subject: |
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| Congratulation Nikola, it's a very good freeware. |
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Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:02 pm Comment subject: |
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| I installed Flash Player on my PC, but it can't find Flash Player on my Windows 7 PC. Please help me, I love nFLVplayer and don't want to use another FLV player. Here my mail: veatesia@google.com |
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:50 am Comment subject: This is great!!! |
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| I found a video on youtube i needed to see brighter and this did the trick well.Kudos to the programmer! |
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:30 pm Comment subject: Autoplay stream on starting the player software |
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| Hi Nikola, the nFLV player works fine. Is it possible to load a preset in the player for autostarting a flv stream from the internet and playing fullsize without manual operation? Hope to hear from you soon! Ralph |
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:22 am Comment subject: Прикольно |
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Офигеть просто! Все, блин, уже в курсе, кроме меня  |
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:54 pm Comment subject: Отлично |
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Вообще, честно говоря, комментарии тут гораздо любопытней самих постов. (Не в обиду автору, конечно ) |
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:01 am Comment subject: Просто отлично |
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Так ведь без недостатков и достоинства незаметны  |
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 1:33 am Comment subject: Skins |
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Would it be possible to have different skins made for nFLVPlayer?. Although I like the functionality, I never really cared for the interface, especially the address bar which is totally unnecessary IMO.
Also, why isn't [i:813d9c778a]Actual Size[/i:813d9c778a] the default? The zoom & aspect ratio settings should be savable, like the picture preferences are.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 2:01 am Comment subject: Любопытно |
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Прикольно! Но есть и минус ! У меня скорость интернета 112 кбит/сек. Страница грузилась около 20 секунд. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:36 am Comment subject: Увлекательно |
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| Занимательно и полезно, а будет еще что-нибудь по этой теме? |
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:39 am Comment subject: choppy frame rate |
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running XP, flash 10.1.r53.64 player 1.4.0.96.
audio runs okay but the video seems to "stall"
problem occurred after OS re-install, old version ran okay.
other problem, preferences button wants to "upgrade" flash. |
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:02 pm Comment subject: update on error |
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Found and installed flash ax 9.0.277.0, then installed 10.1 for Firefox and frame rate problem has gone. Is there a proper installer of 1.3 still in download area?
mac_servicer@fastmail.fm
Still a great and small product  |
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