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When I double-click a Flash FLV file in Windows, I see an error message and am told to download the Macromedia Flash Player. Why?

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When I double-click a Flash FLV file in Windows, I see an error message and am told to download the Macromedia Flash Player. Why?

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If you have decided to encode your file in FLV format, your PC requires an FLV player to view your file. On2 Flix Exporter includes a player program named FlixFlvPlayer.exe, and FLV output can be viewed within Flix Pro and Flix Standard by clicking the Play button when encoding is finished. There are also standalone FLV players available on the Internet. A popular one is Martijn de Visser’s FLV Player. If you are using Flix Pro, you can also take the FLV and create a SWF player. In that case ,the resulting SWF player file should play on your PC, but you will still require the Adobe Flash Player.