How to Play FLV Video on BlackBerry

As a BlackBerry user, do you regularly disappointed with the BlackBerry players' incompatibility to play a lot of video formats, say playing FLV on BlackBerry Z30? This could be a common problem that most BlackBerry users share. And what's worse, unlike iOS and Android, there're not much 3rd-party media players (which can solve this problem) for BlackBerry (BB OS) since it's not media-centric device. Yes, of course almost all android apps work with BlackBerry, but you know, it's kind of a laggy and sometimes when you need it, it just won't work at all. To help you solve the BlackBerry video playback issues, here I recommend you 2 workable solutions:

Key Features:

• Supports various video & audio formats including mkv, flv, divx, xvid, avi, wmv, wma, mp4, mp3, ac3, aac, flac, ogg, mov, rm, rmvb, etc.
• Plays media locally or streams from DLNA servers or KalemSoft Media Streamer
• Beautiful audio visualizations (supported on BB10 only) with support for external milkdrop presets
• Supports embedded SSA/text/DVB and external SRT subtitles with multiple language encodings

Cons of KalemSoft Media Player: Not free; have problems with audio/video syncing from time to time;

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Key Features:

• Support limited formats: .avi .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .wmv .mov .m4v .f4v
• Touch gestures: pinch to zoom, slide to jump backward/forward, etc.
• Bookmark to recover last video session end position
• Automatically loads subtitles in .srt format with same name as the video file

Cons of Nutty Player: Not support lots of formats including MKV, X264 and FLV; may flash back when loading multiple videos;

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Key Features:

• Support almost all video and audio formats
• Play most local video and audio files, as well as network streams
• Provide media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly
• Support multi-track audio and subtitles
• Support auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures controls

Cons of VLC for Android Beta: It's an Android app; it's an early BETA version that a lot of things are not finished;

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Step 1 Put FLV Files to the Converter

Before the conversion, it's important that you need to download the program, and then follow the instructions to correctly install it onto your computer.

Launch the converter. On the main interface, you can click the "Add Files" button to load the source FLV files (or any other video files) to the program. Besides, you can click the "Download" button to download (and if needed, convert) online videos from YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to BlackBerry.

Step 2 Customize Output Settings

The imported files will be listed on the main panel. After importing the files, hit the "Profile" menu bar on the lower bottom to open the output format list, and then choose the output format. To do the BlackBerry conversion, you can directly choose the optimized BlackBerry preset from the "BlackBerry" column.

If needed, you can press the "Settings" button to specify the detailed output video/audio parameter settings including the video & audio encoders/bit rate, audio sample rate/channel, video resolution, etc.

Step 3 Play FLV in BlackBerry

After the settings, now you can (optional) try to edit the imported videos like resizing, trimming, cropping, etc with the built-in editor before converting. When all needed settings and editing are done, preview the results. If you are satisfied with the result, press the "Start" button on the lower right to launch the conversion.

As multi-tasking is enabled, you batch convert all the imported videos in a little while. Thereafter, connect BlackBerry to your computer, transfer the converted videos and then you can play them on your BlackBerry without any problem.