Download video from many popular video-sharing sites e.g. Break, Metacafe, AOL, etc. Support to grab online video in FLV, MP4, WebM, 3GP, etc. Watch videos without annoying ads, buffering, etc. Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP. Mac OS X 10.7 or later. To download a file, you can copy the URL from the right sidebar, paste it on the location bar, and press ⌥↩. The web inspector can be shown by pressing ⌥⌘I if you've enabled showing the develop menu in the advanced preferences.

File extension FLV is most commonlyassociated with Flash compatible video files, which are often used to displaystreaming media on sites such as YouTube. Though the format refers to Adobe,formerly Macromedia - Flash, the FLV container is an open format and so videos canbe exported by other multimedia applications using Adobe's FLV codec. Typically you can open FLV file using a video player application. VLC Player is a good example of a video player

FLV files were originally developed andsupported by Macromedia, though details of the format are available for otherdevelopers to use, hence its widespread use on video streaming websites. FLVfiles contain video and audio streams as well as metadata. This is used tostore properties of the file, such as its intended dimensions, frame rate,duration and data rates, which are often used by applications to ensure thevideo is displayed correctly. FLV files can also be used to embed video withinShockwave Flash (SWF) files with the use of Adobe's ActionScript language.

Multiple video codecs are supported for usewith FLV files, including Sorenson, On2 TrueMotion VP6 and, most recently,MPEG-4 Part 10, otherwise known as H.264. FLV files also support several audioformats, including File extension MP3, File extension AAC, PCM and Nellymoser ASAO.

A number of applications can be used toopen FLV files, including Adobe Flash Player, a freely available FLV video player,MPlayer, VLC Media Player and Quicktime. Other applications such as WindowsMedia Player can also be used if the ffdshow codec is installed. FLV files canalso be opened by web browsers which have the Adobe Flash plug-in installed. Itshould be noted that Adobe has created four new more specific file formatsdesigned to overcome problems with the existing FLV format when streamingMPEG-4 media. These are File extension F4V (Adobe Flash Player Video), File extension F4P (Protected AdobeFlash Player Media), File extension F4A (Adobe Flash Player Audio) and File extension F4B (Adobe Flash PlayerAudio Book).

Typical FLV application file locations:

• 'C:Program Files (x86)Adobe Media PlayerAdobe Media Player.exe' '%1'

Typical FLV mime types:

• video/x-flv

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Frequently used application names to open FLV files:

• Adobe Media Player

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Frequently associated Windows objects:

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• com.adobe.flv