General Discussion - How to convert mp4 to flv on Mac Anonymous - Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject: How to convert mp4 to flv on Mac
1.What's FLV
Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.,Flash Video (FLV) is a file format used to deliver vidaeo over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV .
2.How to play FLV on Mac
The following players support FLV files in their default installations:
Free FLV Player for Mac
An FLV player is a type of media player that is used for playing flash video from PC as well as from Internet websites. An FLV player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring or developmental tools.
Step 1: Free download and install mp4 to flv converter.
After installing and running the mac flv to mp4 converter, you will see the main interface as below.
Step 2: Add FLV video files to convert to mp4
Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard drive and select FLV video files you want to convert. This FLV to mp4 video converter for Mac supports drag-drop and batch conversion, so you can import and convert several flv files to mp4 at a time.
Step 3: Select output format as MP4
Use the "format" on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the "Format" label to get format drop-down menu. Select "MPEG-4 Movie" as the output format.
Step 4: Start to convert FLV to MP4 on Mac.
Click "Start" to convert flv to mp4 video for Mac, just forget it and have a cup of coffee.
With Wondershare mac mp4 to flv converter enhanced editing functions, you also can trim, crop, add effect on your video, merge several flv video clips into one file, and extract audio and image from FLV on Mac. This is a detailed guide about how to convert flv to mp4 mac.
4.Why do we need to convert flv to mp4 for mac?
As is known to all, youtube videos and other online videos are always .flv format.When one feel like playing and editing flv files mac ,it is better to convert mp4 to flv mac,for imovie ,quicktime and itunes ,even final cut pro accepts quicktime mp4 smoothly.Moreover,it is easier to import videos to ipod and iphone after converting mp4 to flv.
