FLV transcoding

[vlada]

Hello,

I have a FLV (Flash) video, which I want to convert into something usable (uncompressed AVI would be the best format for my needs). The problem is, that all tools I've tried (GPL/freeware/shareware) are unable to transcode the movie. They only play sound. But If I try do display the movie using a FLV Player (http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated), it works without problems.
MPC plays the file without video too (DirectShow). I tried to install Gabest's FLV splitter and rendered the file in GraphEdit. The splitter only had audio output pin! FFMPEG cannot decode video and VLC only plays audio as MPC. What should I do? How can I convert the file? What might be the video compression?

Thanks a lot,
Vlada

P.S. If you want to, I can publish the FLV file for your investigation.

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Well, I did fight with the same problem, because it has been reported that MPC+FLVSplitter+FFDSHOW decodes FVL properly, but I did meet the same as you - only audio was decoded.
After a lot of efforts I did discover where the problem is - in FFDSHOW by default FLV decoding is DISABLED. Go to FFDSHOW -> Video Decoder Configuration -> "FLV1" and select LIBAVCODEC for decoding.
Ather that you can play FLV in MPC or handle it by AviSynth as "DirectShowSource".