How to Play FLV (Flash Video) Files in Windows Media Player?

How to Play FLV (Flash Video) Files in Windows Media Player?

By default Windows Media Player (WMP) will not play flv and report that it does not have the correct codecs to play it.

There are two options (either of these two will work)

1) Downloading codecs package such as K-Lite . K-Lite is a tremendous codecs package that supports for various file formats such as 3gp, mp4 etc. Almost any movie format that you can think of or find on the internet, K-Lite will have a codec to play it. Installing the package will enable Windows Media Player to decode and play the file.

K-lite can be downloaded from here

2) Download a simple FLV plugin for Windows Media Player with no extra bells and whistles. The plugin is very lightweight and does exactly what it says - Plays FLV files and nothing extra.

PlayFLV plugin can be downloaded from here

[Problem]Audio format is not supported by the current application

Problem: In Acer machine you might get the error message saying "Audio format is not supported by the current application Would you like to playback with Acer Arcade" when you try to play DVD in Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Vista enviroment. 

If you still want to fix this and play DVDs in the Windows Media Player simply download AC3 filter and install it. 

Download AC3Filter from AC3Filter website.