Flash Video is a container file format. The widely known flash video format is FLV and F4V. Most embed videos on websites are FLV format for the reason that FLV can store large-size video with relatively small file size. However, FLV videos are not compatible with Apple’s program, like QuickTime, iMovie, etc. This fact also keeps you from playing FLV video files on your iPhone, iPad, or some other gadgets with iOS unless you know how to play FLV on Mac. Fortunately, there are always solutions. Here I will share some feasible methods that can be take advantage of to easily open FLV on Mac.
Approach 1: Watch FLV on Mac by using FLV player for Mac
By downloading and installing the proper FLV media player that can handle FLV file format, you can easily view any FLV videos on Mac OS X (El Capitan). Below are some available Mac FLV players:
In Mac OS X v10.6 and newer, since the QuickTime X (QT Player v10.x) AVFoundation playback structure no longer posses an open codec architecture for 3rd party plugins or components installation, you can't drop AVI files that aren't encoded as Mjpeg video with PCM onto QuickTime X player for direct playback. Ways to Play AVCHD Videos on Mac OS X (including 10.11 El Capitan). FLV, AVI, MOV and many more. VLC media player is easy to handle and is regarded as the best alternative to iTunes and RealPlayer. This AVCHD video player offers Windows version as well as Mac version (Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.6). The supported OS is Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Wimpy FLV Player
Wimpy FLV Player is cross platform (both Windows and Mac version) stand-alone FLV and SWF player. With it, you can view any FLV videos in a hassle free manner: either by directly dragging and dropping the FLV files you want to watch into the interface or just click on the Folder icon to browse and select what you want. The supported OS is Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
SWF & FLV Player for Mac
Formerly named SWF Movie Player, SWF & FLV Player for Mac is a free playback tool for Flash Videos. With it, you can play, rewind, fast-forward and playback any movie files frame by frame. Integrating with web browser, SWF & FLV Player can download SWF/FLV video files from various websites. In the simple and intuitive interface of this program, you can also control the sound volume and manage the FLV video playlist.
Approach 2: Play FLV videos on Mac by converting FLV to Mac supported format
There are plenty of Flash Video player available on the market. You can choose the suitable one according to your needs. However, there may still such kinds of problem: what if the FLV video player doesn’t support your latest Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)? Or what can you do if you want to edit the FLV video files which downloaded from internet with Apple’s video editing program like Final Cut Pro on Mac?
In these cases, Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac is highly recommended to figure out the conversion from FLV to Mac program or devices supported format. This Mac FLV converter can convert any FLV videos to virtually all popular formats like MOV, MP4, M4V, AVI, WMV, MPEG, 3GP and many more. Besides, you can edit and touch up your FLV video on Mac by the built-in video editor. You can change the video frame size, append special artistic effects, merge several FLV videos into one file, add individual text or image watermarks and even load subtitles.
The procedure of converting FLV to other formats to play successfully on Mac without additional media player is extremely easy. What you need to do is to load the FLV files you want to convert, choose an output format like MOV or M4V, and click the Convert button to start the conversion.
Moreover, Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac can easily download any FLV videos from various websites like YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Metacafe and more. Only with a few simple clicks, you can easy get any FLV downloaded and converted to fit your mobile devices. The equivalence of FLV converter for Windows (Windows 10) is Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate.
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Devices and Mac OS X version
VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any 64bit Intel-based Mac. Previous devices are supported by older releases.
Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Please use version 2.0.10 linked below.
Web browser plugin for Mac OS X
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates.
Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player
Avi Player For Mac Os X 10.6.8
We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. You can find recommendations for the respective operating system version below. Note that support ended for all releases listed below and hence they won't receive any further updates.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Use VLC 2.2.8. Get it here.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Use VLC 2.0.10. Get it for PowerPC or 32bit Intel.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later is required
Use VLC 0.9.10. Get it for PowerPC or Intel.
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is required
Use VLC 0.8.6i. Get it for PowerPC.
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Use VLC 0.8.4a. Get it for PowerPC.
Avi Player For Mac Os X 10.4 11os X 10 4 11 To 10 5 Free Download
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and 10.1 Puma
Use VLC 0.7.0. Get it for PowerPC.