How To Play FLV Files In Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player issues

If you wish to watch your favorite YouTube videos in your system, enabling a special pack of codecs for Windows Media Player becomes a necessity. This is because most sites such as YouTube use FLV or Flash Video Files as the common video format. These files ensure that the video has good picture quality and a small size. But then, Windows Media Player doesn’t support FLV files unless you have downloaded a special pack of codecs. After installing such programs, decoding of the FLV formats can be done to make them compatible with Windows Media Player.

You can use the following instructions provided by the Windows Live support team to enable Windows Media Player to play FLV files:

K-Lite Media Codec

·       At first, you need to close Windows Media Player. Now, go to the K-Lite Media Codec Pack homepage and start downloading the K-Lite Codec pack.

·       Once it’s downloaded, you can install the codec pack and then open the Windows Media Player application.

·       Now, go to File and click on Open. Select the FLV file you want to play, and click Open to start the playback.

PlayFLV

·       For PlayFLV codec, first open Windows Media Player and then navigate to the PlayFLV website. Start downloading the PlayFLV package and then run the installer once the program has been completely downloaded.

·       Next, open Windows Media Player and click on File, followed by Open. Press the CTRL and M keys to get the command bar, and then select the FLV file you want to play in the application. Now, click on Open to begin playback.

·       There are chances that you will get a message that says The filetype is unknown. In such cases, all you require is to check the box next to it that says Don’t ask again.

Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Media Player features

·       First, you need to check if the Windows Media Player is opened. If it is, then close the application.

·       Now, you need to download and install the Windows Essentials Codec Pack. Once you have installed, run the Windows Media Player in your system.

·       Next, you need to click on File followed by Open. Here also, select the FLV file you want to play, and then click Open to start the playback.

These instructions provided by the Windows live support team can help you in enabling special codecs in your Windows Media Player to run FLV files.