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What's the best way to convert a .flv file to a DVD movie? I've tried using Any Video Converter, DVD Shrink, and a program called DVD Flick. I was able to make a movie, but when I gave it to my friend, he said the video was messed up and kept jumping up and down on his DVD player. Was this the right combination of software? Any other suggestions? (Note: Unfortunately, I don't have Nero Burning ROM. Do you guys think I'll need it?)

I've never gotten flv conversions to work smoothly - I wanted to convert several Dr Who flvs but ended up doing a search for them in AVI format via uTorrent. The avi's converted nicely in Nero.

I did make some notes on converting youtube flx's if that helps. You can often find flvs on you youtube but at reduced quality.

http://dominogavin.blogspot.com/2007/03/converting-flx-files-for-playing-on-dvd.html

At any rate, the best place to start is a conversion to AVI then you can easily put them on DVD.

Sorry this wasn't a lot of help.

Try ffmpeg, it's a command line program (unless you can find a GUI interface for it, or have a Mac, in which case you can use ffmpegx), but converts almost anything.

The open source video editing tools like ffmpeg and mplayer/mencoder are the most powerful and feature rich ones out there, and they're free, the only problem is you'll have to read the manual to be able to make full use of them.

There's a basic guide to using ffmpeg on .flvs here.

Nero 6.0 StartSmart should work fine, you can make vcd or svcd disks with reg cd's or wma dvd's

Renaming a file does nothing to change its contents. A Flash Video (FLV) file is not at all like an Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file.

There are two explanations for Windows suddenly accepting a file that you have merely renamed.

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Firstly, it was an AVI file to start with, and you have merely changed the extension back to what it was supposed to be.

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The second explanation is that Windows is very silly about file name extensions. It expects them to define the contents.

If you have lost the association between the extension ".flv" and any program that might be able to display that format, then you will find it fairly hard to get any program to look at it.

By renaming it to have an extension that Media Player, for instance, will at least look at, it means that you get to open it. Media Player then looks at the CONTENTS of the file, recognises that it is really Flash Video, and displays it successfully.

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Now, the second explanation also might explain the first explanation...

If someone had trouble viewing an AVI file, because the file association was broken, they may have renamed the file with .flv, because they knew that did work.

That makes sense, I tried it with a you tube video, it must have been an avi

I'm fairly sure that YouTube always convert uploaded videos to FLV (because it's the most compact format around). It would then depend on what you used to save the incoming video... maybe that converted it to AVI for you (but then saved it with the wrong extension?)

I know that every time I've grabbed incoming YouTube files (from where they lurk with silly names in the Linux /tmp directory), they've been Flash Video format.

An .avi file is just a container for a number of video and audio streams put together into a single file. The .avi ending really just says it can be opened by a video player. You can only play .avi files you have the video and audio codecs for. If you get hold of the gspot video codec appliance program you can run it on .avi files to see what codecs are needed.

Renaming an .flv to .avi may make it open in a player that supports it (like VLC), where Windows wouldn't have a clue what to do with an .flv, but it's still not a very portable format, so converting to divx codec would make it playable in more places.

VCD and SVCD have very poor video quality as they use very old MPEG versions (2 I think) while divx is MPEG4. Modern codecs produce smaller files, and have higher quality, so it's worth installing more video codecs than come with Windows. There are usually packages of lots of codecs to allow you to play any file you come across (and encode or convert too). I haven't downloaded a pack for a while, but Matroska and Defilerpak were good ones a year ago, and have probably been updated.

Actually while we're all discussing this... (I hate making new threads for similar questions) does anyone know of a good FREE video "resizer" for AVI.

I was looking to convert some AVI's so I can watch them on the mobile (3GP format? I think).

In any case I want to get them to fit a resolution of 320x240.

Thanks.

mencoder once you've got the commands down you can point it at a whole folder of files and it'll convert them all to whatever format/size you want, regardless of the original size/format (so long as you have codecs for it to read them in).

You can use some dvd ripper may be/