Either, actually. I tend to abbreviate with sometimes unpredictable results. The best all around viewer I have found is VLC (more free open source software) which will play just about anything. However, download helper will convert on the fly while saving, so you can save those flv files in the format of your choice. Most of the time I find open source stuff to be better than the similar commercial things. I have not used real player for many years so have no idea of how well the current version works. No need for the adobe flash player if you have VLC or convert to another format with download helper.
www.videolan.org/vlc/
for some reason thunderbird isn't letting me insert the url as a link today, but you can copy/paste the above into your browser.
spaceman
Perry Way wrote:
utube or Youtube? Youtube videos are in Flash Video format (*.flv). They are not a typical desktop format. You need a special viewer, likely, to view them on your PC without them being served through the internet in your common every day browsers.
If you have Real Audio player installed, it will allow you to download any video format with exception to a new one employed by Youtube for the High Definition videos (which appears to only be streamable, not downloadable). Real Audio has a little icon that pops up when you hover over a video, if you click on the icon you can download the file in its native format without any other special software.
Either way, you'll need the special viewer for Flash Video format. See this link:
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