I use perian on os x. It reads flv files directly in quicktime, so i can open them in gem also.

http://www.coolosxapps.net/2007/02/15/perian-05-the-swiss-army-knife-for-quicktime/

On 2/16/07, Derek Holzer <derek@umatic.nl> wrote:
Oh, I see...it's proprietary Flash junk....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV

But if ffmpeg, MPlayer or VLC can deal with it, then it must have a
codec out there in some lib somewhere.

d.

Derek Holzer wrote:
> What kind of codec is .flv? If Quicktime, libquicktime or some other
> library which PDP or GEM relies on for decoding already (ffmpeg?)
> supports it, it could be possible.
>
> d.
>
> Jiri Heitlager wrote:
>> I am pretty sure that playing .flv files in PD is not (yet) supported.
>> Would it not be a very cool thing, becuase then clips from youtube can
>> be used in projects..
>
>

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