Consider this a bug report. :)

This has some issues and it’s a shame because I really like the player and that’s pretty much what I was interested in.

It doesn’t handle raw avi files well at all. Raw uncompressed .avi’s I fed it are not in color but black and white and totally messed up with funky diagonal lines.

Secondly…there is NO WAY I should have to change Flash Player permissions in order to play something locally on my hard drive! I’ve never ever seen an .flv converter do this, and it’s totally ridiculous!

Not only should I NOT have to do this, but each time I do a conversion and save in a different location I’d need to give Flash Player permission to play it locally all over again from a new location? This is hogwash! And totally not worth the aggravation!

It should just play on my own PC. Period.

It’s too bad…the player is quite nice and the ability to add a preview image of your choice and a logo would be wonderful!

Unfortunately the bad things here outweigh the good, so I’m giving it a thumbs down.

If the vendor fixes the issues, they could have an excellent program here.

Thanks.I always enjoy reading your reviews.

Just for the record the FFmpeg licensing is mentioned in the EULA of FLVMate (and as a part of the online manual)

3RD PARTY COMPONENTS
FLV Mate utilises the FFmpeg libraries (Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.) for part of the conversion process. FFmpeg is free software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project. You may obtain the complete Corresponding Source code by visiting flvmate.com/opensource

:)

And if you click on his homepage link you will find an universe of very valuable advices of a very experienced user.

By the way – that software is really missing even basics, how nice the idea of the program may be.

That so called “review” was done hurriedly and without putting in sufficient time to be fair to this Developer. The full version of this program was released at 3:00am. The first comment was posted at 3:01am based solely on the trial version. Since working with this program for several hours I found it delivers as advertised. The comment by #1 is no more than an exercise of a race to post first and serves as an excellent example of nitpicking. It’s my Recommendation that today’s GOTD be tried out because you just might find it as I did, to be a diamond in the rough. Thanks GOTD…

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I have pahaps found an error in this program. If you load a file wich you want to convert, and discover that it’s the wrong file, then when chosing another file, it’s still the first file showen in the preview miror.

after trying ths program, i must say that, if i had payed money for this software, i would have been disapointed. It need some posibilities, like a feature to remove the originaly sound and/or add music to the outcome movieclip.
It’s a nice player thats installed..

All togther it get 3 out of five stars.