How to Convert FLV Files Losslessly on Windows

FLV, commonly known as Flash Video, is a container format which is developed by Macromedia adopted by Adobe Systems. Operate as streaming video, FLV format is extremely flexible and relatively small compare to other media formats, it is popularly used to publish videos streams for most popular media service sites like YouTube, Yahoo! Video, Hulu. FLV extension file is supported by vast majority of browsers and viewable in most of the operating systems so it is nearly guaranteed to work on all of the visitor' PCs.

Flash videos can be download from YouTube via third-party software such as Video Downloader, it can be played by Adobe Flash Player and VLC media player, but some programs do not understand the format, so you can convert FLV into other formats such as AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP etc. for playback on PC and portable devices like PSP, Apple devices.

The powerful and splendid ArcSoft MediaConverter performs as FLV video converter with ease. The whole process involves three steps. Before go ahead, Free download the program and follow the command prompts to install MediaConverter onto the desktop.

This flv converter supports various Audio files extensions such as MP3, M4A, AC3, AAC, WMA and OGG while its NVIDIA CUDA & ATI Stream technology helps to maximize video encoding speed up to 5 times. There some of the popular video formats are MPEG, MP4, DivX, XviD, M4V, MOV, AVI, WMV, ASF, and RM. The best things about this convertor are you can play these coverted files on PSP, Zune, cell phones, iPod, iPhone. The functions to add logos or text as watermark, realtime preview, trim, and crop videos can also be offered by this flv converter.

For installing such processor, you requires Microsoft® Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Vista, or Windows 7, 1GHz Intel/AMD processor, 256MB RAM, Super VGA (800×600) resolution, 16-bit graphics card or higher.

Step 1: Add files to MediaConverter

Select the "Video" icon and choose the files which you want to convert to FLV format, or directly drag and drop your video files into the application workspace.

Step 2: Select any format as the output format

Click the icon, and choose any format as the output format from the drop-down menu. Then click the "Done" button.

Step 3: Start the FLV conversion.

After selecting output, press "Start" button to begin the conversion, the process bar will show the file size, used time and remaining time. You can paused the conversion process anytime if necessary.

Within the time frame of few minutes, the files will be converted into desired format.

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