VLC media player

MK was recently telling me about a media player that can play most any video format.

“VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.”

Of particular interest: you can also play FLVs without the need for embedding the content within a player SWF.
You can download a copy here.

Note: if you choose to install this software, I recommend you turn off the File type associations. It may interfere with other video players.