Ever wanted to save a YouTube video as a WMV file or just wanted an MP3 of a song played on youtube (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com)?
While there are a number of ways to do this, there is a free tool out there that is simple and easy to use.
The program is called FLVtoAVI. You can download the video into the formats listed in the screen shot below and save it to your computer!
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From their website:
FLV to AVI – Freeware to converting Flash Video (.flv) to AVI
Do you need convert internet Flash video to popular AVI video format? Do you want to play your Flash video with your portable video player (MP4 players)? This small and powerful flash tool "FLV to AVI" can help you.
FLV to AVI is one free software to convert Adobe Flash video to AVI video, simple and easy to use, just input the file name of your Flash video file, and choice one output AVI video format, the software will convert your Flash file (.flv) to the AVI video (.avi) in minutes (the default output AVI video is MPEG4 video format).
FLV to AVI support several different AVI video codecs, include MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, QuickTime (MOV), WMV and 3GP. It can only convert audio data form Flash video file to MP3 audio (output MP3 audio is 128kbps 44kHz stereo, standard "CD quality" bit rate).
Simple and Easy to Use
This free Flash conversion tool is simple and easy to use very much, no complex settings, program is smart, the output video can have good quality, with this program, anyone (specially for newbie) can convert their flash videos by themselves, without any video codec knowledge about FLV and AVI.
In the main FLV to AVI interface, there have three zones: the "Source Flash¡±, "AVI Video Format" and "Process". The "Source Flash" is used to select the source Flash video, the "AVI Video Format" is used to change the output video format, and the "Process" is used to show the conversion process and status.
The source flash of FLV to AVI can be "Flash Video File" or "Youtube Web Page". For converting existed Flash video file on your PC, you can input the full path file name or click "Open" button to select one.
About Convert YouTube Video
FLV to AVI can be used as one handy youtube video downloader, it can download the high quality MP4 file from youtube video server, and you can save this video as one standalone AVI video file (MP4 format), or convert it to other video format as you like.
If you want to save the Flash video form Youtube directly, just input the YouTube web page address (URL) in the edit box as Flash video source, you can copy this address form the address bar of Internet Explorer & FireFox and paste it there.
A important feature about YouTube Video is that once the users ask to download and convert one Youtube video, the FLV to AVI will redirect and download the high quality video version directly from the YouTube video server, and not the low quality FLV video, so users can get one higher video quality than the normal youtube web page. Each YouTube video have two video quality versions, one is MPEG4 video, the other is Flash video, program will download the high quality MPEG4 video version.
How to Use
- Download the setup file of "FLV to AVI", and install it on your PC;
- Input one Flash video file or Youtube Web Page address;
- Default outout AVI codec is MPEG4, you can change with "AVI Video Format" options;
- Click "Convert" to start the Flash conversion process.
Output Video Support
- MPEG4
- DivX (Digital Video Express)
- Xvid (contrast with the DivX codec)
- WMV (Window Media Video)
- MOV (Apple Quicktime Player)
- Song PSP (MP4 format, video stream has the dimension of 368*272)
- 3GP (3G mobile, rescale video to 352*288)
- MP3 (no video, audio only)
Download
- Download FLV to AVI (http://www NULL.flvtoavi NULL.com/flvtoavi_setup NULL.zip)
- Current Version: 1.2
- File Size: 2.77MB
- System Platform: Microsoft Windows XP/98/2000/VISTA
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- Program can work with VISTA 32bits and 64bits, can wotk with Windows 7
- Price: $0, Freeware
FLV to AVI is absolutely free software, free for any private use.