An FLV player is a kind of media player for playing back and controlling flash video from PC as well as from Internet sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Myspace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Music, sevenload, eVideoShare, StreetFire, etc..

An FLV Player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring tools or Flash development tools, allowing you to display and preview your FLV files in a more controlled way.

Standard playback controls are included in most FLV players, including playing, pausing, stopping, rewinding, and forwarding. Some other common functions include zooming/full screen and optional FLV file association.