Convert Flash Video (.flv) to AVI (.avi) or MPEG (.mpg)

January 9 by | 21 comments | Lifehack, Technology | Tags: , ,

Hitrec at VideoHelp forum introduces a software called RivaFLVencoder which able you to convert .flv files (Flash Video) into avi and mpg files. This is extremely useful when you download youtube or google videos and you don’t like it play in flv player. With this conversion, you can play google videos in many systems, such as iPod Video. One catch: Most of the time, audio can be transcoded to the target format. However sometimes audio codec cannot not be transcoded, you can follow this instruction to mux that back into the target file:

… It’s possible that the .flv contains an audiocodec that will not be transcoded. A solution for that is to play the original .flv and record the audio with Audacity (for instance) and to mux that recording with the .avi or .mpg you get from Riva…

Ref: How to convert .flv (flash video) to .avi or .mpg

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  • bill

    how to convert .gvp(google videos) to avi?

  • jim

    in flash :

    file -> export -> export movie -> filetype : *.AVI

  • piro

    Imtoo avi to mpeg converter does decode flv extension to avi or other format
    Conversion is pretty good if flv is of good quality
    The best option is to encode flv to swf and then decode this to avi it improves resolution

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  • Shyam

    thanks

  • Hk

    In answer to the gvp question, you can do either of two things:

    1. download VDownloader from here: http://www.enriquepuertas.com/wp-content/files/vdownloader.zip

    or

    2. open the file in notepad, and search for everything after the text “url:” and before the text “docid:” paste that into your browser, and it should download it.

  • Sreedhar

    I tried to download video from google.but failed after I tried both the ways.
    I downloaded .avi file from youtube which is working but the file which i have downloaded from google videos is not working.

    is there any way to find appropriate .flv for these 2 sites….

  • CORBIE

    Imtoo AVI to MPEG converter DOES DECODE .flv EXTENSION to AVI OR OTHER FORMAT WITH VERY GOOD QUALITY, DON’T BEAT AROUND THE BUSH

    :D

  • Harry

    Hi – I’ve downloaded and tried half a dozen programmes that claim to convert .flv to .avi or .mpg, all failed. But I then came up with this – maybe just a fluke, but it did the trick easily and with excellent results….

    1) Played the flv video on the original website.
    2) Found the flv file in Temporary Internet Files on my hard drive.
    3) Copied flv file to another folder and changed the extension to .mpg
    4) Imported the file into Cyberlink Power Director 3 (a video editing program that came as freeware on a magazine disc, probably a download somewhere if you google for it).
    5) Produced the movie as a DV quality .avi file (.mpg options also available).
    6) Perfect result!!!!!

  • gyan

    looking for a freeware software with which i can convert flv into mpeg or avi….downloaded moyea but it is a demo …leaves a watermark on the converted video..plz suggest a software which is free to download and is fully working ..even on a trial basis

  • aamir

    best programme is Flash to Video Encoder (google it)

  • Aidoru

    “open the file in notepad, and search for everything after the text “url:” and before the text “docid:” paste that into your browser, and it should download it.”
    thank HK, this worked ;)

  • khowyunfat

    hey everyone, im having a bit of trouble, i want to convert flv file to avi (or mpeg) now i already know how to download from youtube and google with vdownloader or with the firefox application, i also use SDP to grab streaming files, my problem arises when i try to grab a video thats embedded (think of abcnews.com where you can browse different headline stories but the window itself doesnt change) so i try to copy from my TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES but nothing is working (Super, Moyea, etc,) im going to try what Harry suggested or Aidoru, any help appreciate it.

  • rions

    “open the file in notepad, and search for everything after the text “url:” and before the text “docid:” paste that into your browser, and it should download it.”

    Can someone explain exactly how this works? What file are you referring to?

  • dreaming

    i have some file*.flv i don’t know how to convert them to awv please help me

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