Youtube, MetaCafe, DailyMotion and other websites use videos encoded in the Flash video (FLV) format. Users can upload videos of multiple file formats, that will be converted into FLV videos before they are embedded onto a web page. These  FLV videos are usually played online. Most of  websites don’t provide an option to download them. However, there are online web services and applications that can be used to download FLV files.  Users need a standalone FLV player software to play downloaded FLV files on Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows Vista.

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Youtube, MetaCafe, DailyMotion and all other online streaming websites in the world uses Adobe Flash technology to play web videos. The web videos uploaded to these sites are converted to FLV format before they are uploaded to streaming portals.  Also its not possible to download and play these online FLV files. However, there are some special applications that can be used to download FLV videos and play theme offline. Direct FLV player is a similar standalone Windows FLV video player compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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