thank you, but VLC usually plays .flv files just fine. I always play them fine. there's only been 1 other time where this sort of thing happened where the .flv video wouldn't play on VLC. I can get the youtube .flv files to always work just fine & it seems that some of the others in here are using VLC & it works for them? I don't know :( is there any way you or someone could put it on youtube? I can dl it off there just fine. I'll see if i can get that RIVA flv thing to work but I pretty much didn't want to dl a flv player for the very reason that I already have VLC, which plays .flv files.