Converting FLV videos to MP4

[HotFezz8]

Hi,

sorry to post such a non-gaming post as this, but I've gotten a bunch of videos off a mate, and they're all FLV format. Is there a way to convert them to MP4? I tried a free downloader off the internet which didn't do much but set my various protection programmes mad.

Can anyone recommend a safe version?

thanks in advance.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Handbrake ought to do it. It's an open source video converter that does pretty much everything.

There a reason they have to be MP4, though? FLV is a crappy compression scheme, but once it's been converted, the damage has been done, and putting it into another format will just make any compression artifacts worse. I don't know of any modern video software or equipment that can't handle FLVs, aside from some of the fancier Blu-Ray and DVD players that will play some regular video files, usually just DivX or XviD.

 

[paulwms]

There are a million and one programs that do this - just google "flv converter" or "flv to mp4 converter"
As for recommendations - I have used http://www.appgeeker.com/how-to/convert-flv-to-mp4-mac.html - I don't know if it is "good" or not, but it did the job for me.

 

[kaioshade]

Avidemux is what you need.

Most of the time, users do not want to convert the video, but rather, change the container. Most flv video is already encoded with h264 video and aac audio, which will fit neatly into a mp4 container. Avidemux will take those streams out of the flv container, and place them into a mp4 container. There will be no loss in quality, as nothing is being converted/transcoded, and it will do this under a minute as it is merely writing a new container for them.

It is not the most user friendly container, but it will do exactly what you need. in the instance that the audio or video is not a standard format, then avidemux can also convert the necessary stream to something acceptable to be placed into a mp4 container.