You can use third-party media players like PlayerXtreme on iPhone and Android devices or VLC on PC and Mac to watch videos in FLV format.
Click this link to download and install VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org/. To finish the installation, click the drop-down menu next to "Download VLC" in a web browser, choose your computer’s operating system, and then follow the prompts.
Click the VLC icon on your Desktop, in the Windows Start menu, or in the Applications folder on your Mac to launch VLC Media Player.
Click Media or File in the menu bar, then select Open File to start playing a FLV file in VLC Media Player. To open the FLV file, navigate to it using the file browser and click to select it. Next, to open the file in the file browser, click Open.
Download the PlayerXtreme app from the Google Play Store for Android devices or the App Store for iPhone or iPad to view FLV files on PlayerXtreme.
Tap the PlayerXtreme icon from the Apps menu or Home screen to launch the program. When you launch the app for the first time, you’ll be prompted to grant access to your media files.
Navigate to the file’s location within PlayerXtreme and tap it to start playing a FLV file.
Launch the Adobe Animate software and create a new project in order to import FLV files.
Click FILE in the menu bar, followed by IMPORT, and then IMPORT VIDEO to launch the Video Import wizard in Adobe Animate.
Click BROWSE in the Video Import wizard and navigate to your FLV file to select it. After selecting it with a click, click OPEN.
After checking the details in the wizard and selecting FINISH, import the FLV file into your Adobe Animate project.
Let’s check if FLV can handle video files.
Adobe Systems created the FLV video format for their Flash Player.
It was designed to work with a Flash plug-in and embed video streams into Adobe applications, which made it a popular option for YouTube video streaming.
To work with other widely used distribution formats like Windows Media or Apple QuickTime, FLV videos had to be converted.
Additionally, FLV was usually not supported by iOS devices, just like other flash video formats (such as F4V and SWF).
Since Adobe no longer supports Flash, any FLV file you want to open or edit with a modern video editing program will probably need to be converted.
Now, let’s discuss how to open a FLV file as an MP4.
The only remaining option is to convert FLV files to a more suitable format, like MP4, as not many media players on Windows and macOS systems are unable to play videos in this format.
In such cases, we advise performing batch FLV to MP4 conversion with Wondershare UniConverter to avoid sacrificing any quality.
It works with both the most recent versions of macOS and Windows.
Please adhere to the instructions below to swiftly convert your FLV files to MP4 in bulk on Windows 10:
- Open Wondershare UniConverter after installing it on your Windows 10 computer.
- After the files are added, click the Output Format tab at the bottom of the interface to choose MP4 as the new file type.
- To begin the batch conversion, click the Start All button. By turning on the Merge All Files toggle, you can convert each video individually or combine all of the videos at once.
We’ll then discover how to open a FLV file on an iPhone.
Many social networking sites and video-sharing websites, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and others, use the FLV (Flash Video) video format.
In order to watch the videos on these websites whenever you want, you might occasionally need to download and store them to your iPhone or Computer.
Everyone is aware, though, that the iPhone can only play back video files in the MP4, MOV, M4V, and AVI formats.
Thus, FLV cannot be played directly on an iPhone.
Does this imply that you can’t use your iPhone to watch FLV videos? Definitely not.
This tutorial will walk you through the process in no time.
All devices can play videos in the general-purpose MP4 format.