easy way to convert video files (flv)

I’ve been looking for an easy way to convert flv video files into another format, after an hour of searching the solutions I found were rather a pain (well I wanted to play an FLV file on my windows mobile phone)

After installing adobe flash lite player on my phone which had no luck playing the flv, TPCMP didn’t want to install on windows mobile 6, coreplayer which is its corporate successor didn’t play it either. The software that I came across for windows seemed overly complicated or looked like nasty spyware so as you do, ignore it for a rainy day.

Today I booted my laptop into Linux (kubuntu) by accident, ooo a new distribution release I see so I install… after installing I think ooo wonder if there’s a nice open source converter… sure enough.. it gives me back WinFF… AWESOME application! just give it the file, tell it the output format and away it goes… what’s an added bonus is as I'm typing this I'm downloading the Windows version!

As an additional note if you have a mutlicore system by default it only uses on core, in the application you can specify additional command line parameters, add –threads 2  (or however many cores you have)

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