Adobe Media Player

Adobe Media Player is a AIR based desktop application. It works as any other media player but has a wider scope than typical media players. This application requires that you have the AIR runtime installed on your system. Having the Flash player is not just enough. A Flash player installation is required for running mostly SWFs either in the standalone player or in your browser.

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I have downloaded Adobe Media Player, but can not find where could I input a url for a flv file, could you help to point out where to set the flv file to play please?

Go to My Favorites > My Personal Videos. On the bottom left there is a Add Video button. Best of luck!

could I understand in this way, Flash Player supports swf (not supporting render video directly) and we could develop player in swf, and utilizing actionscript API to render video in such swf application -- which forms swf player, played in flash player?

Flash Player allows you to play video. AMP is mainly targeted at sharing online media. You could, if you so desire, write your own player.

Another question is, why Youtube develop their own swf based player, why they do not use Adobe Media Player directly in their page? Any technical reasons?

AFAIK, Youtube and a few others use their proprietary video format (basically SWF + delta related to security + optimizations) which is why they use a customized player.

Seems flash player does not support play video directly (Flash Player only supports playing swf file), here is the discussion (I am confused about this for days).

No, Flash Player allows you to play FLVs. Read this. Have you actually tried playing one in your Flash Player (standalone player)?

Thanks Andy, I have downloaded Adobe Media Player, but can not find where could I input a url for a flv file, could you help to point out where to set the flv file to play please?

George2 2009-03-23 08:39:11

"you can not directly play video/audio in the flash player unless you make a it work through actionscript / Flash / Flex " -- Adobe Media Player is developer by Actionscript as a swf?

George2 2009-03-23 08:40:29

Thanks dirkgently! I have downloaded Adobe Media Player, but can not find where could I input a url for a flv file, could you help to point out where to set the flv file to play please?

George2 2009-03-23 09:02:05

Thanks dirkgently, could I understand in this way, Flash Player supports swf (not supporting render video directly) and we could develop player in swf, and utilizing actionscript API to render video in such swf application -- which forms swf player, played in flash player?

George2 2009-03-23 09:39:37

George2 2009-03-23 09:40:48

Seems flash player does not support play video directly (Flash Player only supports playing swf file), here is the discussion (I am confused about this for days). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/672314/flv-file-and-swf-file Any comments?

George2 2009-03-23 10:07:52

What is it that you are trying to achieve? How are you generating the flv files? Do you want to be able to play them?

dirkgently 2009-03-23 10:20:06

I will put a reply on the other post you'v ementioned as well for completeness.

dirkgently 2009-03-23 10:28:44

Thanks dirkgently, your reply is so excellent! One more questions, how to use Adobe Flash player manually? I am so stupid that I have tried hard but can not find a way to use Adobe Flash player in the same way as Media player to point it to a flv movie.

George2 2009-03-23 11:19:10

(continued) by default, it is played by Adobe Media Player and not played by Adobe Flash Player. Any ideas about how to make Adobe Flash Player play the flv file file so that I can have a try?

George2 2009-03-23 11:22:46

"What is it that you are trying to achieve?" -- my purpose is to understand differences between swf/flv and different functions between Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Media Player.

George2 2009-03-23 11:23:35

Read up on the file formats. There's enough information on Adobe's website to keep you busy for sometime.

dirkgently 2009-03-23 17:07:16

As for playing FLV's I just updated your other post. By default, when you install AMP, the file association for FLV gets changed to use AMP which is why you are seeing this behavior.

dirkgently 2009-03-23 17:08:03

what is the executable file name for Flash Player? I find all stuff by Adobe on my computer but can not find it out. :-(

George2 2009-03-24 07:52:02

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