FLV Format is popular a popular extension widely used on Video File sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video or Metacafe and you may be knowing about it if you are regular surfer. It is used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player, and supports H.264 video and HE-AAC audio, or been embedded within SWF files.

To play these files online, you just need a browser with Adobe Flash player Plugin installed. In case, you download the streaming videos – You will have to use a third party applications like FLV player, KMPlayer, etc. OR there are options available to convert videos into other playable formats on Windows Media player.

It would be a better option to Enable FLV format playing on Windows Media Player just by installing a Plugin called PlayFLV.

Features of PlayFLV

• Plugin that enables Windows Media Player to playback FLV files.
• Features all default functions, such as zooming, skipping and full screen view.
• Creates file association: Double-click FLV files to play them in Windows Media Player.
• Very lightweight plugin.
• Free and open source

Download PlayFLV Plugin