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 co
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 .
I know practically nothing about video. All I want to do is to convert my
iMovie stuff.M4 V format, into an FLV format for upload to an online musical
instruction site. I don't really even know if it's necessary. I'm not all that
concerned about the video graininess etc., but I want the audio to
Sorry, I had read it backwards. I wasn't aware that FLV was still
supported much out in the wild as most places have gone to MPEG, so I
thought you were trying to convert FLV to MPEG before uploading it. If
your source video is m4v format then most sites should be happy with it.
What site are y
oh, it takes m4v, but I heard that there is a lot of quality degradation in the
conversion/compression process, visually anyway, not so much aurally, which is
all I really care about.
It’s a great video exchange teaching site for Bluegrass instruments - among
others called
www.artistsworks.com
iMovie can do that easily enough. I sometimes use Handbrake. its about as
accessible a video source converter as you are going to find.
-eric
On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Phil Halton wrote:
> I know practically nothing about video. All I want to do is to convert my
> iMovie stuff.M4 V format,
