problem with Wimpy FLV Player

No, they not marked system requirements, even minimal. Just sentence
"Wimpy's industry leading cross platform (Mac and PC) standalone Flash Video
FLV player"

Santander
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"Don Phillipson" <e925.DeleteThis@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message
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> "SANTANDER" <santander.DeleteThis@microsoft.news> wrote in message
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>
> > I have problem with Wimpy FLV Player: and it does not work on Windows
98.
> I
> > tried also previous version of that player (2.5) -same result, plus
player
> > cause windows system error. Player developers were too lazy even to
> specify
> > system requirements for they "industry leading cross platform (Mac and
PC)
> > standalone Flash Video FLV player". It works on windows XP, but when
> mouse
> > over on player window, it show annoying white Play/Stop icon on center
of
> > window, that's really annoying. Any ideas what is wrong there?
>
> Your complaint appears to be that proprietors of this software
> chose to program it for some operating systems (e.g. WinXP)
> and not others (Win98.) Do they not mark this clearly on the box?
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>

"SANTANDER" <santander.TakeThisOut@microsoft.news> wrote in message
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> No, they not marked system requirements, even minimal. Just sentence
> "Wimpy's industry leading cross platform (Mac and PC) standalone Flash
Video
> FLV player"
>
> Santander


Give VLC a try
it should play most any media file

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html#win98




>
>
> "Don Phillipson" <e925.TakeThisOut@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message
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> > "SANTANDER" <santander.TakeThisOut@microsoft.news> wrote in message
> > news:uEjx1oBPJHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >
> > > I have problem with Wimpy FLV Player: and it does not work on Windows
> 98.
> > I
> > > tried also previous version of that player (2.5) -same result, plus
> player
> > > cause windows system error. Player developers were too lazy even to
> > specify
> > > system requirements for they "industry leading cross platform (Mac and
> PC)
> > > standalone Flash Video FLV player". It works on windows XP, but when
> > mouse
> > > over on player window, it show annoying white Play/Stop icon on center
> of
> > > window, that's really annoying. Any ideas what is wrong there?
> >
> > Your complaint appears to be that proprietors of this software
> > chose to program it for some operating systems (e.g. WinXP)
> > and not others (Win98.) Do they not mark this clearly on the box?
> >
> > --
> > Don Phillipson
> > Carlsbad Springs
> > (Ottawa, Canada)
> >
> >
>

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"Santander" <santander.TakeThisOut@microsoft.news> wrote in
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> One note:
> is the Riva FLV player standalone, or
> installation is required? I need also some FLV player that
> not require installation and can work directly from CDROM
> (as portable app), no external resources is required.

IIRC, you have to have the flash plug-in installed, but if you
use a common browser you may already have it. I use Opera and I
/think/ I had to install it, the file name is:

flashplayer7_winax.exe

but a later version should work as well. The player adds two win
sys files and about 250 registry lines (probably totally
unnecessary but that's Windows).

Riva is a 2.5 MB exe, and it does require an install, but it is
relatively benign.

Aside from about 15 lines of

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uni
nstall\

etc. stuff, it only adds this:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File\Shell\Open\Command
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File\DefaultIcon
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.flv\ @=Flash Video File (was flv_auto_file)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File\ @=Flash Video File (was
<null>)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File\Shell\Open\Command\
@="C:\Program Files\Riva FLV Player\Riva FLV Player.exe" "%1"
(was <null>)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Flash Video File\DefaultIcon\ @=C:\Program
Files\Riva FLV Player\Riva FLV Player.exe,0 (was <null>)

and about 3 files in its own directory.

I think RIVA tells you what it needs if you don't have it.

You MAY have to have Swiff player installed too, I can't
remember. Either way, it's quite painless and does not mess with
your system. Both Swiff and flashplayer7 are about 600KB.

As far as "portable stuff", I only ever touch this stuff at a
desk, so I can't help you there. But seeing as the sizes of
everything involved are fairly small by today's standards I
don't see it not fitting on even the smallest USB stick. I do
not believe just having all this on a CD-ROM will make ANY
machine play FLV's but then again it could. It would take you
about 10 minutes to find out. And if it doesn't I can't see
anyone objecting to installing a few harmless files on whatever
computer. In fact you could probably put together an install
package of under 4 MB for all this stuff if you know how to
write a batch file or want to use an installer of some kind.

As I said, the latest VLC may well do all this and more (I DO
use it and like it a lot) but whatever version does may or may
not run on 98. I am not really into YooToob etc., so I am not
very up to date on this stuff.

There's a rather hairy thing called "SUPER" which plays
/EVERYTHING/ I believe, but as I said, it is a little hairy. And
almost 30 MB. I like small programs myself.


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