.flv capture & convert

[Orexic]

Please excuse my newbiness......

I am reasonably certain this is the incorrect place to post this, but a search proved fruitless (though I may have overlooked something in the 13 pages of results).

Basically, I am lost and a seeking a bit of direction -- either the correct forum, or product, or perhaps most of you will be telling me about this extremely hot place for even pestering y'all ....

I am seeking "good" software that will capture and convert .flv files. Yes, a Google search produces tons of results, but none from the actual users of the programs that the advertisers are so anxious to sell.

I am also looking to PURCHASE, though good freeware will not be summarily rejected.

Thank you.....

[bb]

The DV forum is definitely the wrong place, because you question has nothing to do with DV.

Let's see if there's help in the Newbies forum.

bb

[Die*wrek*show]

Would this (http://vixy.net/) help?

[Orexic]

Die,

First, thanks for your reply.

The site you linked is fine for shorter files, but I was looking for something that would capture large .flv files and then convert to .avi, etc.......

Thank you again..................

[Die*wrek*show]

Well one way to "capture" a non-copyrighted .flv file is to simply go into the "general" tab of "internet options" in internet explorer, then settings>view files to view where the .flv might be, if it's there at all. If you just watched it a few times, ie might have cached it, it could be there.

So in that folder view of your temporary internet files cache, you look towards the top right corner for the word "type" and click. This will sort your files by type. Then use the file id # from the url to match with the .flv files in your cache folder. for example from - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf6_1178706101 you would identify the fileid as cf6_1178706101 and look for that in your cache.

I just found this (http://biggmatt.com/winff/) the other day, it's based on ffmpeg from linux. I haven't tried it yet.

[Orexic]

Die,

Thanks..... I will look into your suggestion! Unfortunately, I am looking to grab some news footage from news media sites to supplement things I teach in the classroom -- I haven't thought about copyright issues, but I guess I had better....

Thanks and I will also look at teh software reflcted in your link......

I apprecaite you time.......

[joseph5]

If you're using Firefox, you can try the VideoDownloader extension.

[Ranma_at]

A free FLV Player can be found here:
http://applian.com/flvplayer/?src=VideoDownloadPlay

No need to convert to .avi if you want it to play on a windows system.

[DarkZell666]

http://keepvid.com/ ? It doesn't convert anything, it just downloads whatever format the video is in.

You'll need something else to do the conversion though (ffmpeg most probably).