How to convert online flash or flv (youtube) videos into mpeg format using ffmpeg

Written on March 15th, 2010 at 18:15 pm by shredder12

Although youtube provides high quality videos now, there is still a lot of media content on the web which is available in flv. In this howto, I will show you how to convert those flv files into mpeg format using ffmpeg in a single command.

Suppose we have a file video.flv and we want to convert it into video.mpeg. This is how we convert a flv file into mpeg using FFmpeg.

[shredder12]$ ffmpeg -i video.flv -sameq video.mpeg

Yes, exactly its that simple. You can do a bit of tweaking with various other ffmpeg flags but since the specs of a flv file are already pretty low, its better to let the default method handle it

1 Comment

ffmpeg-windows-user (not verified)
September 18th, 2010 10:29 am
i can help you with converting video files, gianmhl@yahoo.com

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