What's FLV and How to Play .FLV Video on Mac OS X?

FLV - Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–11. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as they are within SWF files. The latter F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is supported starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and currently developed by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally developed by Macromedia.

Flash FLV Video has been accepted as the default online video format by many sites. Notable users of it include YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.

The FLV format is an open format that is also supported by non-Adobe/Macromedia programs. FLV files may be exported from QuickTime Pro or other applications that can export to the QuickTime file format.

How to Play FLV Video on Mac?

FLV video is rather common on Mac OS X, which stands for the most popular video format. But Apple Quicktime Player is not friendly with .flv format. To play flv video on Mac, you'd better convert flv to mov Mac or convert flv to mp4 Mac first. Now many online video converters have lost of limitation, like the video size or conversion time. Here SnowFox Software provides the best FLV Video Converter for Mac . With it, you can easily convert flv to other popular video formats for Mac. Of course, it not only supports .flv video format, but also any other video formats, like avi, wmv, mod, tod, mts, mpg, m4v, 3gp, rm, rmvb, mpeg, avchd etc.

Convert FLV Video Format on Mac with FLV Video Converter for Mac

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Guide: How to Convert FLV Video Format on Mac OS X with FLV Video Converter for Mac

Step 1: Launch the above FLV Video Converter for Mac.

Step 2: Add .flv video files on Mac.

Step 3: Set " MP4 Video" as the output formats and specify the path.

Step 4: Click "Start" button to begin conversion, then done!

From the above steps, you can quickly convert flv to mp4 on Mac with high quality, next, enjoy wonderful flv video with Quicktime player as you want.

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