Convert video to FLV

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Converting video to FLV is free: drop your video above, hit convert, and download the FLV. Files delete themselves within an hour.

Whatever your camera, screen recorder or download produced, converting that video to FLV gets you a file built for nothing new: today it's mostly old downloads waiting to be rescued. Flippy reads practically any video format and writes clean FLV: codecs, containers and all the fiddly parts handled for you.

Why flip video to FLV

Video is the heaviest thing most of us ever attach: screen recordings, camera clips, whole talks. It was born in wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from, and its real weak spot is nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks.

FLV is a relic of the Flash era: the format YouTube grew up on, stranded when Flash died. The Flash Video container, typically holding old H.263, VP6 or early H.264 streams. That makes it the right destination when what you need is nothing new: today it's mostly old downloads waiting to be rescued.

How to convert video to FLV

1
Drop your video file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
2
Check the output format: FLV is already selected for you.
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Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new FLV.

video vs FLV, side by side

	video	FLV
Born	wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from	2002, Macromedia (later Adobe), for Flash Player
Type	video · any format	video · container
Best for	any moving picture: recordings, rips, exports, downloads	nothing new: today it's mostly old downloads waiting to be rescued
Weak spot	nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks	playing anywhere at all since Flash was switched off in 2020
Typical size	anywhere from short clips to multi-gigabyte recordings	small files with dial-up-era expectations about quality
Plays on	Depends on the container and the codec inside it.	Almost nothing modern; VLC and converters are its retirement home.

Questions people ask

Will converting video to FLV lose quality?

Flippy always picks the gentlest path: container swaps and extractions copy your streams untouched, and re-encodes happen once, at quality matched to the source.

Will the FLV file be bigger or smaller than my video?

It depends on the format you pick as the output: lossy formats land a few megabytes per minute, lossless several times that.

Where will the FLV file play?

Almost nothing modern; VLC and converters are its retirement home. That's the usual reason people leave video behind: FLV simply opens in more of the places that matter.

How long does video to FLV conversion take?

It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.

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