File associations with FLV

Report · May 22, 2012

I have installed Flash Player this afternoon but despite rebooting the computer it does not find Flash Player as an app when I go to add FLV as an association.

I am using Windows XP Pro fully patched and want Adobe to open FLV files ... not Nero!

What is wrong please?

Report · May 23, 2012

If you installed Flash Player as a plugin, then it will not appear as an application in either your start menu or the open with dialog.

For FLV playback, I'd personally recommend VLC or Potplayer.

Report · May 23, 2012

Hi Chris

I understand, or at least I think I do, what you are saying there. However, when I open an flv file on IE8 it still opens Nero and I'd prefer it to open Adobe Flash Player. How do I stop it doing Nero and get it to do Flash Player please?

Thank you,

Paul

Report · May 23, 2012

Hi Paul,

How are you opening an FLV on IE8? Do you have a link I can try out?

Chris

Report · May 23, 2012

Sure Chris - try http://www.mgcars.org.uk/imgytr/filmcars.shtml and there are a bunch on their. I know on another computer I have that they open with Adobe but on the main computer I use it uses Nero ... and that is what I want to prevent!

Thanks

Report · May 25, 2012

I see, thank you for the link. Usually flv's are not distributed this way. Typically a website will host a flash video player that will let the flv play directly in your web browser. This site is just linking to the files, which causes you to find your own player. What I suspect you'll want to do is register a different player for the FLV extension in Windows so that Nero isn't the default.

To fix this, I'd first save one of the FLV's to disk. Then I'd install my prefered video player (vlc, potplayer, etc.) Finally I'd use the instructions here to set the default application to use when opening the flv file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859

Hope this helps,

Chris

Report · May 26, 2012

Hi Chris

Thanks the advice helped me a lot. I am actually also the webmaster at this site so I have converted all the non-flv videos into flv files and set up an embedded player on a new page www.mgcars.org,uk/imgytr/filmcars2.htm but I have a problem now in that when you click a video I would like the page to jump back up the page from the "button" with the video link on it to the player so that the viewer can have the embedded player up in front of them when the video starts.

I realize supporting HTML is not normally part of the service you guys provide but can you or a colleague suggest to me how I can do this please with the <a href="javascript:createplayer('filmcars/mikesilk.flv', true)"> type statement as I have tried without success to incorporate something like #top.

Thanks

Paul

Report · May 29, 2012

Hi Paul,

I'm glad you got this working. I took a look at the site and it looks like you got the #top issue sorted out too.

Chris

Report · May 29, 2012

Yes indeed - the addition of onclick was what was needed. However, the JavaScript that I have for loading the embedded player though knocks out the JavaScript that I have to open the picture files with LightBox and also is not compatible with my normal protocol of not using frames so I now have to figure out (or be told!!!) which bit of the embeded player script can be modified and how to enable me to get back to a regular page!

Paul