How to play FLV files on a Mac. If you want to play FLV (Flash Video) files on your Mac, you'll need to use a player that can handle FLV files.

Here are a few recommendations (and all of them are FREE as of this posting): 1. Standalone Desktop FLV Players by - a Mac Flash video player that lets you watch FLV and SWF files from your desktop.

Dec 8, 2018 - How can I find a player to play FLV videos or Flash formatted video on my iMac? Developed by Adobe Systems, Flash Video is the dominant. 5 Free FLV Players for Mac Users Developed by Adobe Systems, FLV is the most widely used video format adopted by online video sharing platforms such as YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, Metacafe and many others.

By - lets you watch FLV files from your desktop. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular media formats including FLV, MKV, AVI, DivX, 3ivX, FLV1, FSV1, Flash ADPCM and many more. VLC Media Player The is a free, cross-platform media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs.

It can handle FLV, WMV and VOB files to name a few. My picks: I'd go with either or the since they will allow me to play not only FLV files, but other media formats as well. A plus for the VLC Media Player would be its ability to play videos in full screen. QuickTime won't let you do that unless you buy the PRO version. Best software for editing music videos. Related articles. I would say go for perian. The quicktime I have in Leopard allows you to view media in fullscreen and it supports skipping through flv files unlike VLC does at the moment.

Thanks for pointing that out. I just checked my quicktime too and the full screen mode is now accessible (I'm still using Tiger). It must have been added with the previous quicktime update. This is a beautiful piece of freeware.

Thanks so much! Very easy to use and appears to be full-featured (for those who know what the features do).

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