How to convert FLV to iPod, iPhone, etc. on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)?

What is FLV?

Flash Video (FLV) is the name of a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player and has extension FLV. The most recent public release of Flash Player supports H.264 video and HE-AAC audio. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com and many other news providers.

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How to play .flv files on Mac (Snow Leopard included)?

In order to play FLV (Flash Video) files on your Mac, you need FLV players. Here are two recommendations (both of them are FREE):

1. VLC Media Player

The VLC Media Player is a free, cross-platform media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codes. It can handle FLV, WMV and VOB files to name a few.

2. Perian

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular media formats including FLV, MKV, AVI, DivX, 3ivX, FLV1, FSV1, Flash ADPCM and many more.

How to Convert Youtube FLV Videos to iPod, iPod touch, iPhone on Mac OS X?

As we know, most of the video files downloaded from these online video hosting sites are in Flash Video (.FLV) format. If you want to put them on your iPod or iPhone for playback again and again, you need to convert them to iPod supported format first. So, how can you convert your FLV video to iPod video? Please follow this step-by-step guide:

1Download FLV Video Converter for Mac, then run this program.

This Mac FLV video converter provides you with better output quality, more advanced functions and higher conversion speed, it also has more friendly and easy-to-use interface.

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2Load the FLV files you want to convert.

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Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and add the .FLV video files you want to convert to the program. For you convenience, Batch conversion is supported by this FLV video converter, so you can load several flv files at one time.

3Choose the output format

Select according to which iPod or iPhone you have from presets for iPod, like 'iPod Touch MPEG-4(*.MP4)' when you want to convert FLV to iPod touch on Mac. Or you can select 'iPhone 3GS Video MPEG-4(*.MP4)' when you want to convert FLV files to iPhone 3GS on Mac.

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4Advanced settings (optional)

Of course, if you don't want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings.

5Edit your flv files (optional)

iSkysoft Video Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file before the conversion.

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6Start the FLV conversion

Click the "convert" button to start FLV files to iPod and iPhone conversion on Mac OS X.

Note: Apart from converting flv to all sorts of popular video and audio formats, iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac can also convert all video files such as avi, wmv, mp4, 3gp to flv format. Just download this versatile video conversion software and enjoy your colorful multimedia life!

How to download flash videos from video sites on Mac for free?

You can download the flash video (.FLV files, the default video format that most video social sites are using) from online video host into your local hard disk. With some tricks, it's now very easy to download the videos hosted and shared on online video sites such as YouTube and Google Video. You can follow this guides:

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