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.FLV videos

Asked by bridabom73

I play some of my .FLV videos and they look like this. http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk31/DukemonDX/Screenshot-8.png But then others are fine. Are the videos damaged or should I be running them in a different program?

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Johannes Pilkahn (j-pilkahn) said : 		#1

Have you tried VLC? Haven't seen an .flv that doesn't open in VLC correctly...

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Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

You can use MPlayer or VLC to read .flv files.

To install mplayer or vlc

Enable extra repositories

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

after getting all the required repositories enabled

Type the following command in a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

(For VLC)

For mplayer

sudo aptitude install mplayer

You can also convert your file into another format with ffmpeg : "$ ffmpeg -i your_original_file.flv new_file.mpg". So you can open it with your favourite player.

Regards

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bridabom73 (bridabom73) said : 		#3

Woot! It works, so now I know its just the player, not the videos! I don't have to re-download them!!! :) THANKS!

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bridabom73 (bridabom73) said : 		#4

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.