Nov 09, 2012 Concerning the issue of any file type to be automatically opened with a specific player/application, select any flv file in the Finder and right-click it to select 'Get Info' or press command + i; in the info-panel you can assign any player from the drop-down menu in the 'Open with'-pane. SWF & FLV Player is a free, swift and smart Flash player for Mac OS X. Eltima enriched it with numerous handy options and controls, which ensure top grade usability for viewing and managing Flash movies.
QuickTimeKirk wrote: QuickTime Player 7 (Utilities folder) can play.flv files when you add the free Perian component. Perian is no longer being actively supported, it's advised it to be uninstalled for security reasons alone and the free VLC used to play files Quicktime doesn't. Open the System Preferences. Select the Perian pane and 'Remove.' Now 'Show All' preference panes, control-click the Perian pane and 'Remove 'Perian' Preference Pane.' Use the free Mac version of the Video Lan's VLC Player to play non-Quicktime compatible media content.
AFAIK Quicktime has never natively played Flash files. For that you need Flash Player. Two bugs, one affecting Apple's Mac platform and another attacking Microsoft's Windows, exploit certain Flash player vulnerabilities to onto users' systems, reports ArsTechnica. While users of other operating systems like Linux have yet to report attacks, Adobe's advisory notes the exploit affects. Designated as CVE-2013-0634, the first vulnerability targets the Safari and Firefox Web browsers running on OS X, and is also being used as a trojan to deploy Microsoft Word documents containing malware. For Mac users, the flaw affects Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.502.146 or earlier. On March 1, 2013 Apple again blocked Flash Player for Lion and Mountain Lion: The Adobe Flash patch can be found on Adobe’s, and users can visit to check if their software is the most curent version.
You should uninstall any previous version first, and repair permissions after installing the new version. If you still get a ‘plug-ins blocked’ message.
QuickTimeKirk wrote: QuickTime Player 7 (Utilities folder) can play.flv files when you add the free Perian component. Perian is no longer being actively supported, it's advised it to be uninstalled for security reasons alone and the free VLC used to play files Quicktime doesn't. Open the System Preferences. Select the Perian pane and 'Remove.' Now 'Show All' preference panes, control-click the Perian pane and 'Remove 'Perian' Preference Pane.' Use the free Mac version of the Video Lan's VLC Player to play non-Quicktime compatible media content. Apple Footer.
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