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    From MyName@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 11 10:35:15 2022
    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I
    need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to MyName on Fri Nov 11 17:36:33 2022
    On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:35:15 -0800, MyName <MyName@NoSpam.com> wrote:

    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I
    need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

    I use something called:

    flashplayer_12_sa_debug_v12.0.0.77.exe

    From 2014 and the sha256 is d65d32e86c53cb9bf425fcaf6d70cf140353a67c130d5a20c2629b6557b6e206

    <https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/search/hash/b6e5ec4bf9c293c2f8fb8063bdd75401>

    If you can find it, just drop your SWF on it, and it'll play. It's
    portable, does not interact with your browser, so would only be a
    security risk if the SWF file was malware.

    Wish you luck.
    []'s


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    We have a new policy - Google 2012
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  • From Shadow@21:1/5 to Shadow on Fri Nov 11 18:19:43 2022
    On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:36:33 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

    On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:35:15 -0800, MyName <MyName@NoSpam.com> wrote:

    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I
    need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

    I use something called:

    flashplayer_12_sa_debug_v12.0.0.77.exe

    From 2014 and the sha256 is >d65d32e86c53cb9bf425fcaf6d70cf140353a67c130d5a20c2629b6557b6e206

    <https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/search/hash/b6e5ec4bf9c293c2f8fb8063bdd75401>

    If you can find it, just drop your SWF on it, and it'll play. It's
    portable, does not interact with your browser, so would only be a
    security risk if the SWF file was malware.

    Wish you luck.
    []'s

    PS Found a link to a more recent version that works under XP
    and comes up clean on Virustotal:

    <https://archive.org/download/flashplayer_32_sa_debug_20211030-after/flashplayer_32_sa_debug.exe>

    It does write a lot of unnecessary crud to the registry
    though. Portable my A** !!!
    HTH
    []'s


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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to MyName on Fri Nov 11 20:40:30 2022
    On 11/11/2022 1:35 PM, MyName wrote:
    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

    Does VLC play them ?

    "Windy 50s Mobility Scooter Race 16 sec 654KB 360x288 300KBps 25FPS"

    https://www.mediacollege.com/video-gallery/testclips/20051210-w50s.flv

    OK, VLC plays that one.

    If I test with ffprobe

    ffprobe.exe 20051210-w50s.flv

    then it says the encoding is:

    Duration: 00:00:16.92, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 316 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, fltp, 40 kb/s
    Stream #0:1: Video: vp6f, yuv420p, 360x288, 266 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn

    FFprobe is part of the FFMPEG package.

    This will play it (ffplay is part of FFMPEG as well),
    but VLC is easier to use.

    ffplay.exe 20051210-w50s.flv

    Paul

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  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Nov 11 22:48:33 2022
    Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    On 11/11/2022 1:35 PM, MyName wrote:
    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

    Does VLC play them ?

    "Windy 50s Mobility Scooter Race 16 sec 654KB 360x288 300KBps 25FPS"

    https://www.mediacollege.com/video-gallery/testclips/20051210-w50s.flv

    OK, VLC plays that one.

    If I test with ffprobe

    ffprobe.exe 20051210-w50s.flv

    then it says the encoding is:

    Duration: 00:00:16.92, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 316 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, fltp, 40 kb/s
    Stream #0:1: Video: vp6f, yuv420p, 360x288, 266 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn

    FFprobe is part of the FFMPEG package.

    This will play it (ffplay is part of FFMPEG as well),
    but VLC is easier to use.

    ffplay.exe 20051210-w50s.flv

    https://wiki.videolan.org/Flash_Video/

    Yep, Flash is supported with some caveats. The OP should try VLC to see
    if his Flash video play okay in it.

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to MyName on Sat Nov 12 14:47:04 2022
    On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:35:15 -0800, MyName wrote:
    Need it for Win XP Pro x32.

    I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.

    Yes, I know it was "discontinued" and there might be some risk but I
    need to see the videos.

    Links on wayback or other would help immensely.

    Thank you.

    For *.flv video files, Adobe Flash Player alone is not enough. It would
    still need a FLV video player flash module.

    It would be easier to use an open source media player which uses libavcodec library such as MPC-HC/MPC-BE, VLC, MPlayer, etc. libavcodec has good
    support for FLV, aside from other various media formats.

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  • From Mayayana@21:1/5 to MyName on Sat Nov 12 08:08:33 2022
    "MyName" <MyName@NoSpam.com> wrote

    | I have some videos on my PC that I need to view.
    |

    I use Media Player Classic for videos. I'm pretty sure it
    plays FLV. I think Irfan View also plays them with a plugin.
    I've never, ever, had the Flash plugin for any browser,
    yet I can plat FLV.

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  • From MyName@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 13 12:15:49 2022
    So if I need it for the Firefox Web Browser then what ?

    Thanks for the relies so far !

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to MyName on Mon Nov 14 04:43:40 2022
    On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:15:49 -0800, MyName wrote:
    So if I need it for the Firefox Web Browser then what ?

    Thanks for the relies so far !

    Firefox ESR version, Adobe Flash Player, and a Flash based FLV video player.

    For the Flash based FLV video player, find the one where web browser is not
    its requirement. i.e. ready to use out of the box via a standalone Flash
    player application.

    Otherwise, it would be an application component which is not ready to use
    out of the box, because it's meant to be used as part of a HTML page, and be set up by a web developer. It will require HTML and JavaScript skills.

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  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to MyName on Sun Nov 13 19:25:23 2022
    MyName <MyName@NoSpam.com> wrote:

    So if I need it for the Firefox Web Browser then what ?

    In Firefox at about:preferences under Applications, select which FLV
    handler you want to use. Firefox will pass off the .flv to that
    external handler. I have VLC selected.

    I haven't used Windows XP for many years, and the above navigation is in
    the latest Firefox on Windows 10. You will need to find out where
    external handlers are defined in Firefox ESR 52 which was the last
    version that supported Windows XP.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to MyName on Mon Nov 14 03:48:29 2022
    On 11/13/2022 3:15 PM, MyName wrote:
    So if I need it for the Firefox Web Browser then what ?

    Thanks for the relies so far !

    If you edit the mimetypes.rdf file, that allows adding
    a new mimetype. If .flv isn't in the Applications of the
    browser, then you can't launch VLC player as a separate
    program from the browser. That isn't integration,
    but it might allow very basic functions such as saving
    the video as a file.

    *******

    VLC has an NPAPI plugin for Firefox. It's the Mozilla tick box here.

    https://images.wondershare.com/videoconverter/en/vlc/Plugin-2.jpg

    You could combine a 32-bit version of VLC, with a 32-bit version
    of Firefox, on your 32-bit WinXP OS.

    https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin/

    For this reason, the NPAPI plugin will be dropped in vlc version 4.
    [That means it is still available from a version perspective.]

    That means the item is still in the current player, but it
    won't be there forever.

    I tested it, and it didn't work. And I think this has been broken
    for more than seven years. It's abandoned.

    Playing the .flv file directly in VLC, seems to work pretty smoothly.

    Paul

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