SWF & FLV Player Helps You Download & Play Flash Files

By: Karan Goel | 25th May 2010

Unfortunately, unless you are living in Finland, a broadband internet connection is not one of your human rights. Most of us still have to put up with snail speed connections and watching “coughing” streaming videos is a torture. That’s why people come up with many alternative methods to download web videos.

The problem is, while most browsers can play web videos by default (with a little help from plugins), you need a dedicated application to play the downloaded file. Instead of looking for media players which support Flash videos (the common format of web videos), why don’t we use an application that was specifically built to play Flash files? Something like SWF & FLV Player.

SWF & FLV Player is a powerful but tiny Flash movie player. It features advanced and unique functions that allow you to not only play, rewind, fast-forward and preview SWF and FLV files frame-by-frame, but also create and manage playlists and save Flash movies directly from websites.

SWF & FLV Player also offers the ability to save currently played Flash movie, no matter where it is loaded from, switch to full-screen viewing mode and capture SWF frame screenshots.

Full features list includes:

Full features list:

• Play, pause, fast-forward, rewind, frame-by-frame preview and browse through Adobe SWF/FLV files
• Browse URLs to discover all Flash movies they use and download SWF/FLV files from web-pages
• Open and play any SWF/FLV file on the web directly (PRO version only)
• Save Flash movies to hard drive with all the external resources they uses (PRO version only, featured in beta mode)
• Easy-to-use zoom in/out, on-screen preview option to display specific part of SWF file
• Play Flash movies in full-screen (PRO version only)
• SWF/FLV playlists management with shuffle mode
• Capture SWF/FLV frame screenshots (PRO version only)
• Convert SWF/FLV into image series (PRO version only)
• Unique heuristic algorithms to determine Flash movie end
• Obtain detailed file information about SWF/FLV files (size, SWF version, frame rate, shapes/morphs/fonts/ActionScripts/sounds/etc.)
• Restrict access to external resources such as sending/receiving data via Internet or using third-party SWF resources by managing advanced security options
• Handy flash movie playback quality control lets you adjust application resources load to your system configuration
• Fit into current window and restore the original SWF file size in one click
• Built-in sound volume control
• Easy-to-use and intuitive interface

The tool is compatible with the following OS:

• Windows XP 32-bit
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP 64-bit
• Windows 2003 32-bit
• Windows 2003 64-bit
• Windows 2008 32-bit
• Windows 2008 64-bit
• Windows Vista 32-bit
• Windows Vista 64-bit
• Windows 7 32-bit
• Windows 7 64-bit

The SWF & FLV Player is a must-have for all video junkies. Tell us how you watch web videos. And which tools and web apps you use.