Most current video multimedia players play many video formats, including the Flash video .flv format. MPlayer Multimedia Player Mplayer is a video player with a wide range of formats supported (including RealMedia and Windows-codecs) and a wide variety of outputs. sudo apt-get install mplayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is an enhanced frontend for MPlayer. sudo apt-get install smplayer Dump a video stream to disc You can dump a video stream to disc using Mplayer: mplayer -dumpstream streamurl VLC Multimedia Player VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player that supports many formats without need for additional codecs. It can not only receive video streams (also see here to convert it to mp4), but can act as a server for video streams, as well. It is one of the only players that can view and backup almost any DVD format, no matter which copy protection is used. See these tips for using VLC to backup/rip encrypted DVDs. sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse VLC plugins There ...