How To Play Flash Files In iPhone : Browsers, Apps and Solutions

FLV, the Flash Video, a common and popular format for video streaming in internet has added extra taste to internet and the world of multimedia. Many websites like YouTube, Reuters.com, hulu.com, Google Video, Yahoo! Video are using this format for storage and streaming.

But the Apple devices like iPhone, iPad do not support the FLV natively. So what if Apple doesn’t let Adobe Flash Player to work on iOS devices. But no need to worry about and still you can watch flash videos on your iPhone or iPod touch. As we know most of the video files are downloaded from YouTube which are in FLV format, so they need to be converted into other video format like .AVI, .MOV, .WMV and .MPG to run in the apple devices. You can simple download and install the FLV Video Converter on Mac. It is very easy, friendly interface having higher conversion speed with loss-less output.

How to play flash files in iPhone

Playing FLV using FLV Video Converter

Just follow the steps and enjoy your Apple devices with more excitements…

1. Drag and drop the FLV files you want to convert to the FLV Video Converter on Mac. Or, you can go to “File” and choose “Add Video” to locate The FLV files need to be converted.
2. Select an output format for each video file and choose a directory to save the output files in the computer. For example, select ‘iPod’ when you want to convert FLV to iPod touch or ‘iPhone 4′ when you want to convert FLV files to iPhone 4S or iPhone 4 on Mac.
3. Advanced settings (optional) is provided to customize your settings or the default setting can be used normally.
4.  Edit your FLV files (optional) can help you to set brightness, hue, contrast, saturation, volume
5. Click the “Convert” button to start the FLV to iPad/iPod/iPhone 4S video conversion and enjoy your colorful multimedia life!

Browser that helps playing Flash files in iPhone

Here are some browsers which can play flash on iPhone -

SkyFire

Apps and Solutions for iPhone Flash

If you have iOPlayer, to view embedded video files such as Mega video, there is another way for playing flash files in your apple devices can be configured in the followings ways.

Step1:  open the Safari browser using the springboard and in the navigation bar, type the following address - http://iosflashvideo.fw.hu

Step2: Click on Go button and let the webpage be opened. Once the webpage has loaded completely, tap on the + button in the bottom.

Step3:  Now you will get many options. Among the options that pop-up, tap on Add Bookmark.

Step4: Next click the Save button.

Step5: Come back to the webpage and now tap on the Bookmarks icon as marked in the screenshot below.

Step6: Click on Edit and open iOSFlashVideo. Edit the address of the bookmark by deleting everything before the word JavaScript. See the below screen shot for better understanding.

Step7: Save it by clicking on Done.

That’s it. Now, you can go ahead and browse any websites to watch your favourite music or video in flash files. To view the video, simply open the iOSFlashVideo bookmark on the respective webpage. The video would now start playing. Skyfire, an iPhone web browser that can plays Flash videos and it is approved by Apple itself. The widespread excitement over the application based on Abode plug-in has creat a sensation to the Apple lovers.

The primary principle of this apps is to transcode the embedded Flash video containing websites in to HTML5 so that one can watch videos in his iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Skyfire really came in handy and the apps do its jobs within 5seconds but it is not compatible for all kinds of websites.

So today Flash file is not an issue for Apple iPhone or other devices. So start enjoying with your apple device and explore the colors of world of multimedia.