 | Jun 16 2009 |
ZZ9908 I was interested in the Pro version because I wanted to download and save flash video from C-Span, but this program won't do it. "Bad Program ID" error message every time. And since you have to buy the Pro version in order to try the save feature, I'm out $20. The refund policy is a joke.
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| May 15 2009 |
FORMICA $20? There are freeware options that have more functionality than this!
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 | May 15 2009 |
MISHA You should probably list some so your comment has more merit.
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| May 8 2009 |
HUEVOX High quality code writing. Simple, easy to use, and lends pleasure to the video experience!
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| Mar 16 2009 |
GRYFFIN ROB_GENDREAU: Name me one other player that can step through SWFs one frame at a time. I can't. There are plenty of tools for yanking Flash video off a web page. But for a Flash developer, for analyzing your animation frame by frame, this thing is a godsend.
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| Dec 31 2008 |
ROB_GENDREAU Hard to tell if this really works; the save function is diabled and the free version doesn't do much that other free apps don't already do. I've posted a question on eltima's web forum, and emailed tech support, but didn't get a response. I wanted to know if in a particular situation I could save some flash animations from a website; the only swf file is a player that accesses other resources that I was interested in downloading. Unfortunately the developers don't respond.
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| Dec 18 2008 |
DP-G4-450GUY Version three dot seven dot sixteen dot six-two-one-oh? Good app, and your naming schema is certainly your biznezz ... but ... holy hannah, batman!
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| Mar 16 2009 |
GRYFFIN Everybody's doing that now. The first three numbers are the traditional version number (3.8.17), the last (four digit) number is the build number. Ain't no big thang.
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| Sep 13 2008 |
SILVERDEMON I've been looking for a program like this to can play certain swf files like games, etc. This is a very useful application, but it lacks one feature. Rather, it does have this feature but it works in a weird way: the volume slider doesn't change the output of the program, but rather the main system volume. Which, in most cases, probably doesn't matter, but in my case I really needed it to work in another way.
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| Apr 11 2008 |
SPRINGHEELMAC Gannet-I believe Perian has that and other codecs, which is on this site. Between that and Flip4Mac, Quicktime can be made to handle most anything. This program does sound like it has nice features though.
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| Apr 11 2008 |
MIKURO Perian can play FLVs, but not SWF animations. QuickTime has built-in support for some SWFs, but not most recent ones. It seems like Apple has not updated that since QuickTime 5 or 6. Also, you need to jump through some hoops just to get QuickTime Player to let you TRY to open SWFs.
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| May 5 2008 |
GANNET QuickTime *was* able to play swf files up to version 5 (Flash is up to version 10 now). As of QuickTime 7.3.1 Flash support has been completely locked out though.
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| Feb 13 2008 |
GANNET Would it be possible to make an SWF QuickTime component? It would be great to be able to watch SWF files in Front Row.
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| Jan 26 2008 |
ZO219 "You can Watch .... but you cannot Save." (Yeah, I know simpler ways of saving ... just don't like it when developers do that.)
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| Dec 18 2007 |
ALLONE Hmmm
I remember I downloaded this a few months ago and not a single problem with this player. Keep up the good work, guys.
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| Dec 13 2007 |
RALF JONSON This one is a nice alternative way to view SWF files, giving you a lot more options, controls, and information about the files you are playing than the normal Flash Player.
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 | Nov 29 2007 |
VICTORIA VELIGODSKY Hello guys! We have released an upgrade for our SWF & FLV Player. The application now fully supports Leopard and Safari 3. We advise everyone to upgrade to the latest build.
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| Nov 10 2007 |
AKROBAT This application was my regular player for all .swf & .flv files. However it is broken in OS 10.5 Leopard. Haven't been able to get it to work since I upgraded. Doesn't play and has to be force quitted every time. I searched for any other player and came across flvThing here on MacUpdate. Fantistic, I was surprised. It's small, uncluttered (no mini viewers and playlist windows all over the screen) and even though it's over a year old actually works on Leopard no problem. Oh yeah, and it's free unlike this broken one that I had to pay for!
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| Jul 15 2007 |
CHRIS FAM Thanks for recommending Perian, works and love it for less CPU hogging fact!
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| Mar 30 2007 |
WAKAYAMA this and other flv player are a total resource hog - on my g4 1.5 gig powerbook playback falls apart if I bring an other app or window to the foreground. Do yourselves a big favour, and download the perian plugin for quicktime, and tame those flv files http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22923/perian it just doesn't get any simpler, and it's totally free
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 | Feb 28 2007 |
INTELLECT INSIDE Trash your SWF Movie Player preferences file before trying to use the new SWF&FLV Player. The old app's prefs file was causing the new app to crash on start every time.
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| Feb 28 2007 |
ZOKDOK For flv playback, you can also use Quicktime Player with a flv plugin ( http://perian.org/ ).
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| Feb 23 2007 |
VICTORIA VELIGODSKY You see, "Pause" button of SWF and FLV Player for Mac works only for the main timeline. If the movie contains an embedded timeline or movieclip timeline - then the pause control will not work. This is the peculiarity of Macromedia Player which is our product is based on. Note that browser application and iSwiff would react the same way. As for dimenstions - so it was implemented by the developers.
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| Feb 19 2007 |
VICTORIA VELIGODSKY Thank you all who have reported the malfunctioning of the latest version to us. It made us promptly investigate the issue and fix the bug. Eltima Software has released the new build of "Free SWF & FLV Player for Mac" (Build 3.0.33.5082), release date: February 18th, 2007. Please download the latest build of v3 to see that it is a stable application now: http://www.eltima.com/download/swf-movie-player/ We appologize for all the inconveniences our users experienced.
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| Feb 16 2007 |
INTELLECT INSIDE Stick with the old SWF Movie Player for now, folks. This new app crashes upon trying to open a SWF file.
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| Feb 16 2007 |
VICTORIA VELIGODSKY If you experience problems with SWF & FLV Player, please e-mail our support department: support@eltima.com Please, describe the problem exactly, tell us what type of OS you are using, send us a crash report, if you can. And if possible, send us a file on which SWF & FLV Player crashes. Eltima Support Dept.
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| Feb 15 2007 |
SHOCK J Seems to play .flv files fine. Immediately crashes when trying to play .swf files. So, we're halfway there. Still looks like the best standalone option for .flv files. You can just drop .swf files on your web browser.
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| Aug 30 2006 |
AFMAC I now have my code and all is well, they have already fixed a few issues I was having so be sure to download the latest build, this app is great and full screen mode is worth the asking price!
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| Aug 25 2006 |
AFMAC Well, I paid for the pro version and have not recieved the unlock code. I have e-mailed them 3 times and NO response! they say in the help file (Registration key is delivered immediately after the order placement. ) this is not true! It is a shame because i really like the app.
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| Aug 25 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT I'm sorry for the delay, we didn't expect the product to gain so much attention since the first hours after the release. Your registration details should be in your mailbox by now already.
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| Aug 24 2006 |
LANCE UPPERCUT An application of this type is sorely needed on this platform and this program seems to have a lot of potential. I say 'seems' because it's non-functional for me. FLV files load and quit after a fraction of a second--far short of the 5 seconds touted.
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| Aug 25 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT That's the limitation of a FREE version actually... ):
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| Aug 24 2006 |
OTSEGO Application unexpectedly quit a second or so after launch...
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| Aug 25 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT I'm really sorry for this issue. I can confirm that we are working on fixing the problem and hope to release a fix-it build very-very soon.
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| Apr 4 2006 |
INTELLECT INSIDE The volume slider ties into system volume, instead of only affecting SWF-MP. This is... BAD PROGRAMMING PRACTICE!!! Give the app its own independent volume control, or don't give it a volume slider at all. The system volume should never be affected by an app's volume controls.
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| Aug 25 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT Unfortunately, it's the limitation of Macromedia Plugin itself, we wish we could overcome it somehow in the nearest future.
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| Apr 3 2006 |
JROSSOL This app isn't a Universal Binary because......????????
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| Apr 4 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT Please, explain your statement. You may verify it with: $ lipo -info "executable file" Alternatively, you may select "Get Info" in Finder->File menu.
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| Apr 3 2006 |
NEO979 Doesn't appear to support straight FLV files, though, regardless of what file extension they are named with. There is one FLV Player for Mac OS X, but it is hard to find and slightly buggy.
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| Aug 24 2006 |
JDUB800 Try VLC - although not the latest version - I think you need 0.84. Plays VLC files nicely! HTH
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| Mar 6 2006 |
ILAST2MINUTES Ive only been using this app 2 minutes and have to write a review immediately. I have some Spanish Tutorial CD's for Windblows only but am having problems with my ole Wintel box. MacUpdate to the rescue!! Found this awesome app and can now continue lessons on my Mac watching the flash files from the CD. Thanks Dev!
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| Jan 21 2006 |
KIRINRIOTCRASH This app saved me the excruciating pain of having to load Virtual PC just to watch an exe-based Shockwave Flash File. Props to you! Keep up the great work!
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| Dec 27 2005 |
BILL B My experience was not like the that of the last reviewer. Double-clicking a flash file correctly launches the player and plays the file. Could be because I'm using Panther. I really like this program; it's much more versatile than the Macromedia flash player. My only gripe is that, as the default player, no icon shows now on flash files.
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| Dec 29 2005 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT Thanks for using our player. The default SWF icon change feature is added in the latest build (1.1.50.1266).
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| Dec 29 2005 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Since the most recent posting of SWF Movie Player here at MacUpdate, nothing has changed on the Eltima pages for SWF Movie Player to suggest that there have been changes to the app since version 1.1 of SWF Movie Player was posted on MacUpdate: no release notes (that I can find) and certainly the version number has not changed. This leads to confusion. Perhaps Eltima will consider a more indicative version numbering system.
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| Dec 30 2005 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT Indeed, the major and minor numbers have not changed and are 1.1 as of December 30, 2005. This is made intentionally, since there are not many fixes and updates added from the first release. As the result the only build number (the last four digits) is changed from 1.1.50.0632 to 1.1.50.1266. Basically, Eltima Software has the strict policy regarding version numbering which we are due to follow. Unfortunately, macupdate.com doesn't support "change logs" feature that provides you with detailed information about current version and all changes since the first release. To check this info please, visit our homepage at: http://www.eltima.com/products/swf-movie-player/
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| Dec 30 2005 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN "Unfortunately, macupdate.com doesn't support "change logs" feature that provides you with detailed information about current version and all changes since the first release." Not true. MacUpdate does support version history/changelogs/release notes. It is just that some developers do not provide that info to us or do not have it available on their website(s). See the submission form, there is a "Version Changes" box for version history/changelog/release notes.
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| Jan 3 2006 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT Thanks for pointing it out. However, I reckon that this form is related to the newly submitted software and I couldnt find any ways to update it later on. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
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| Jan 3 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN You can update the version history of your listing at the submission form for exisiting listings. That link is the "Add a File" link found on most, if not all, MacUpdate pages.
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| Dec 27 2005 |
INTELLECT INSIDE I spoke too soon. Buggy: double-clicking SWF files in Finder launches the player, which then proceeds to randomly play some other SWF file in the playlist. Selecting the correct file in the playlist doesn't help. Buggy.
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| Dec 27 2005 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT We couldn't reproduce your problem however, have tested a lots of SWF files. The possible fix of the problem is the following: enable "Automatically play files added to Playlist" option and disable all options in "Go to next Playlist item if" section. If this doesn't help, please, send SWF file in question to our support team and specify all options you have set in "Preferences" dialog that lead to the described problem. Thanks for the cooperation.
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| Dec 27 2005 |
INTELLECT INSIDE Better than iSwiff. Being able to pause/FF/RW is great.
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| Dec 26 2005 |
OCHYMING It quits when plying those inter-actives .swf files in the playlists with non inter-actives ones. But looks gorgeous.
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| Dec 27 2005 |
ELTIMA SUPPORT More likely that you have set "Go to next playlist item if" group of options to a very small value, however, it is hard to find out the reason of the problem without being properly informed. Could you, please, describe your problem more thoroughly? Do you mean that the Player unexpectedly quitted or jumped to the next playlist item? Thanks in advance.
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