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Terje wrote on 4/9/2008, 2:57 PM
Works great here. Use it to play flvs on desktop before uploading them to my website.
johnmeyer wrote on 4/9/2008, 3:02 PM
I cannot imagine installing anything from Adobe, voluntarily. Their software has always seemed to me to be bloated, slow, clumsy, counter-intuitive, and sloppy. Like software from Symantec, which I also don't like, their programming teams seem to think that they have some sort of divine-given right to take over my PC.

So, no I haven't tried it, and yes, your experience doesn't surprise me one bit.
Chienworks wrote on 4/9/2008, 3:16 PM
I was rather astounded, shocked, dismayed, and even a bit angry to discover that the Adobe Reader 8.1 installation on my PC is using up over 128MB of disk space. Thats more than Sound Forge 9 is using! Even Microsoft Office 97 Professional is only using 108MB, and it has a few zillion more functions than Adobe Reader. Reader 5 only needed something like 5MB. What in the world have they added to their software that needs another 123MB? Should i be scared? Something is very seriously wrong with the Adobe programmers.
Jeff_Smith wrote on 4/9/2008, 3:47 PM
I just started playing around with it, seems to work well with my flv, mp4 and mov files. Its a small exe file but it does have a have the highest mem usage.
NickHope wrote on 4/10/2008, 12:28 AM
Yes, I finally lost patience with Adobe Reader the other day. The size of it is totally ridiculous for what should really just be a simple document reader. And it does infect the computer with propietary auto updating nonsense, IE toolbars etc.. I took it off and installed Foxit Reader and i'm liking it so far.

On the subject of media players, I've been using GOM Media Player recently and I really like it. It seems to play everything and it made my m2t HDV files look really good, if not better than other media players I've used. The install wizard is very nice too. If you want a sexier and friendly alternative to VLC Player then I really recommend it.

I guess one reason to use the Adobe Media Player is because it probably uses the same FLV and MP4 decoders that the Flash Player uses. So you should be able to get a preview exactly how a video will look online. Previewing in something like Quicktime offline can give a totally different look to the online Flash Player, especially in terms of brightness/contrast. I am making a big assumption here though.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/10/2008, 6:11 AM
I have Media Player Classic & VLC. Those play anything. Even SWF's & Flash files. Honestly, I don't know why we need yet ANOTHER media player on the market, there's tons already,
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/10/2008, 7:45 AM

Nick, thanks for the link to FoxIt! I truly hope they make a hugh dent in Adobe's strangle hold on the PDF market.


riredale wrote on 4/10/2008, 7:57 AM
Ditto for the Foxit reader. Like John Meyer, I too am very leery of anything Adobe touches, based on past experience. On my main machine here the Foxit PDF reader works beautifully.

Funny thing is that on another machine I have, the Adobe PDF reader is not willing to let go very easily, and Foxit is having a hard time taking over the file association. Someone should make an "Adobe cleanout utility" for just such situations.

As for playing flv files, I currently use "FLV Player."