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Thread ID: 141167	2015-12-12 02:02:00	Playing Shockwave files on Win10 machine.	B.M. (505)	Press F1

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1412656	2015-12-12 02:02:00	Anyone recommend a player for .swf files on a Win10 machine? :thanks	B.M. (505)
1412657	2015-12-12 02:07:00	vlc?	fred_fish (15241)
1412658	2015-12-12 02:19:00	Or use something like Freemake video converter (www.freemake.com). And convert it to a compatible format Make sure you do a custom install so you dont install the crap	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1412659	2015-12-12 02:19:00	vlc? Unfortunately not, well not on mine anyway. I think it must play everything but though. :)	B.M. (505)
1412660	2015-12-12 02:32:00	Potplayer may play it. (http://potplayer.daum.net/) That's what I use for formats Windows cant play	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1412661	2015-12-12 08:14:00	VLC most definitely plays swf files It's up to 2.2.4 now, but here's the info from earlier showing flv... VLC reaches 2.0.5 VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" is an important update to our 2.0 media player. Large Orange VLC media player Traffic Cone Logo 2.0.5 is an important update that fixes some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. 2.0.5 introduces an important number of fixes for MKV, SWF, AIFF, RTSP, subtitles and encoding. 2.0.5 also improves the Mac OS interface, some video filters and Pulseaudio synchronization. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC. 2.0.5 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds around 100 commits on top of 2.0.4, fixing 50 bugs.	bevy121 (117)
1412662	2015-12-12 17:23:00	VLC most definitely plays swf files It's up to 2.2.4 now, but here's the info from earlier showing flv... Well that's interesting because this one doesn't? Well not on this machine anyway. Further investigation required by the look of it. :) 6857	B.M. (505)
1412663	2015-12-12 20:18:00	Zoom Player says it will. www.inmatrix.com Shockwave Flash (".SWF") files can be played through the Flash ActiveX control (used by Internet Explorer). When this setting is disabled, Zoom Player tries to play the file through DirectShow. www.inmatrix.com Its just one of the several players I use. Be careful if you install it, use the custom settings and disable the couple of extras it wants to install. It has a load of different plugins to use /download. Another is Alplayer www.altools.com as it mentions ALPlayer includes the basic codecs to play most of the movies. For those rare kinds of codecs that are not popularly used, ALPlayer will download the codec from ALPlayer Codec Center then install it for you. Edited: Supported Formats 3G2, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, ASF, ASK, ASX, AVI, BMK, DAT, DIVX, FLV, IFO, K3G, M1V, M2T, M2TS, M2V, M4V, MKA, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPA, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MTS, OGM, RM, RMVB, SKM, SMI, SMIL, SRT, SUB, SWF, TP, TS, VOB, WM, WMP, WMV, WMX, WVX Alplayer is the one I use the most :)	wainuitech (129)
1412664	2015-12-12 22:31:00	Well that's interesting because this one doesn't? Well not on this machine anyway. Further investigation required by the look of it. :) 6857 and you have done a right click on a .flv file and assigned VLC as the default program? the VLC you have installed is the correct one for your OS (32 or 64 bit)? www.videolan.org As you can see from that link - there is no doubt vlc plays flv - and has done for a long time	bevy121 (117)
1412665	2015-12-13 00:25:00	As you can see from that link - there is no doubt vlc plays flv - and has done for a long time As the link provided to Zoom player points out: Please note that Shockwave Flash files are different from Flash Video (".FLV" extension). FLV files contain audio/video only while SWF files can contain menus and vector animation. Two slightly different formats. A explanation: HERE (www.video-to-flash.com) and difference-between-swf-flv (classroom.synonym.com)	wainuitech (129)
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