A free and nicely designed tool to view your flash videos.
FLV Direct Player is a free nicely designed tool for viewing and enjoying your flash videos. These can be local files stored on any of your drives or online FLV files (such as those on YouTube).
The latter is probably one of the program's most attractive features – it will allow you to open and play any FLV file you can find on the Net and save a copy of it in your system. The process is very simple. You just need to locate the video you would like to watch, then copy its URL and paste it in the ‘Open URL’ box provided. Once FLV Direct has downloaded the video it will automatically start playing. The ‘Save as’ option available in the program’s menu will let you do the rest.
The player’s interface is attractive and intuitive. It includes only those controls that are strictly necessary for you to play and pause your videos, and to change the size of the screen. Finally, the other few options available are neatly grouped in a small pull-down menu.
Pros
- Makes a copy of any FLV file from the Web
- Simple and attractive design
Cons
- Changes the default home page and search engine in all installed browsers
Does Flash Card Manager include recording sound, or can you only use text?
Good
Quote, "FLV Player comes with no viruses or spyware, and at just 2.12 Mb, it makes for a quick, hassle free download" FLAT out LIEFound these Viruses during the install...Virus or unwanted program 'ADSPY/eZula.HU [adware]' detected in file 'C:WINDOWSsystem32Nva-MB--b2-Ja.dll.Virus or unwanted program 'DR/EZula.HU [dropper]' detected in file 'C:Documents and SettingsmeLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5EC0ZIHJEsetup[1].exe.that's just the bad part, the not quite so bad part is that it installs toolbars, changes the home page, adds a search engine all without asking. That's just like spyware to me. GARBAGE!