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BitComet FLV Player

By BitComet Free Editors' Rating

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Feb 27, 2009

BitComet is best known for its torrent-downloading program, but this FLV player is not a bad entry into that field, either. It's not going to blow your socks off, though, and because its layout is too sparse to easily manage, you might want to look elsewhere unless you're a die-hard BitComet fan.

The program loads to a black screen with a simple Play button in the lower left corner, and a counter and volume control in the lower right. On the menubar, File gives you access to a URL loader for directly playing FLVs from the Web, View lets you double or triple the size of the window, and Options controls file associations and languages packs. A fourth category, More FLV, provides FLV-managing instructions posted on the BitComet forums.

Although most FLV players tend to err on the side of fewer rather than more features, the BitComet player is too light in this regard. Without even the ability to loop the video, we'd like to see more features added before using it again.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.4

General

Release November 7, 2008
Date Added February 8, 2007
Version 1.4

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Additional Requirements Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, Flash Player 9

Popularity

Total Downloads 374,561
Downloads Last Week 1
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Developer's Description

BitComet FLV Player is a standalone application to play Flash Video files (.flv file). It supports zoom 1x/2x/FullScreen, playback progress control, volume control. It can also play .swf files (flash files).

Version 1.4 fixes the issue that the player fails to render some files occasionally and optimized the loading speed for local files.

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