FLV or Flash Video is a container which can hold any number of video
formats. The older ones used the Sorenson or On2 codecs while the newer
ones now support h.264 (MPEG4). So FLV in of itself may or may not have
the old junky video formats. One quick way to tell is to just rename the
.flv to .mp4 and try to open it with Quicktime Player. Most content
sites have moved to MPEG as the other codecs are not generally supported
on mobile devices. So if you have an FLV, there is a good chance its
something pretty old and probably in one of the old codecs.
All that said, Handbrake should be able to convert old FLVs to MPEG so
you can use them on modern platforms.
https://handbrake.fr
CB
On 8/21/14, 10:04 AM, Phil Halton wrote:
I understand that FLV is the preferred format for many online video sites such
as YouTube, and that most of these sites convert uploaded videos into FLV
format. I want to do the conversion myself and upload the FLV video to avoid
crappy conversion results. Is there a good app that will let me convert iMovie
videos .M4V format into FLV? Preferrably free of course.
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