{"id":669,"date":"2007-06-02T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=669"},"modified":"2008-06-16T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T02:26:12","slug":"mac-software-review-swf-flv-player-pro-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Mac Software Review: SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player.gif\" alt=\"SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/system\/start_04.gif\" alt=\"Mac software review\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nEltima Software&#8217;s SWF &#038; FLV Player is a video player for Adobe Flash.  You can play SWF files with Adobe Flash Player (free).  And you can play FLV files with VideoLAN&#8217;s VLC Media Player.  So why would you pay $20 to buy SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO?  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>SWF &#038; FLV Player has a few interesting features that Adobe Flash Player and VLC Media Player don&#8217;t have.  One of those features lets you browse and save SWF files.  Umm&#8230;  But aren&#8217;t there free applications that let you download SWF and FLV files?  <\/p>\n<p>SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO&#8217;s &#8216;Browse URL&#8217; function is unique.  You don&#8217;t have to know a specific URL to download an SWF file.  In fact, you just need to know the URL for a webpage as a whole.  For example, our website (www.mhvt.net) contains one SWF file.  All you have to do is to enter this URL, and SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO will search the page and look for downloadable SWF files.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_04.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_04.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"92\" alt=\"SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO&#8217;s other features include &#8216;Capture current frame&#8217; and &#8216;Go to Frame.&#8217;  VLC Media Player lets you take screenshots.  But unless they are self-contained ones, VLC Media Player doesn&#8217;t play SWF movies.  On the other hand, SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO supports both self-contained and reference SWF media files.  So you may find SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO useful in this respect.  And, unlike QuickTime Player, Adobe Flash Player and VLC Media Player don&#8217;t let you play videos frame by frame with arrow keys.  SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO doesn&#8217;t, either.  But you can jump to a specific frame.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_01.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"126\" alt=\"SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_02.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"126\" alt=\"SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/mac_shareware\/swf_flvt_player\/swf_flv_player_03.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"126\" alt=\"SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nFinally, there are a few features that we hope the software developer to fix.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>if you open or save an SWF file, you cannot go back to the browser screen.  So you have to enter the same URL all over again to open\/save a different file.<\/li>\n<li>It will be nice if one can also open and download SWF\/FLV files at a remote server. For now, you can only open files on HD.<\/li>\n<li>It will be nice if one can forward and rewind frames with arrow keys.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<li>Developer: Eltima Software (mac.eltima.com)<\/li>\n<li>Latest version: SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0<\/li>\n<li>Prices: SWF &#038; FLV Player PRO 3.0 ($19.95 or \u00e2\u201a\u00ac15.95)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacHouse recommendation<\/strong>: Only if you frequently download self-contained SWF files, buy it!.  The price is pretty reasonable.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nSWF &#038; FLV Player PRO is a product of Eltima Software.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"460\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"80\" align=\"left\" valign=\"middle\">Click for<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/mac_products.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/system\/more_mac_product_review.jpg\" alt=\"Mac software product review\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eltima Software&#8217;s SWF &#038; FLV Player is a video player for Adobe Flash. You can play SWF files with Adobe Flash Player (free). And you can play FLV files with VideoLAN&#8217;s VLC Media Player. So why would you pay $20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}