flv files.įast forward 13 years later the landscape has changed dramatically with mobile devices being the preferred way to access the Internet, HTML5 replacing Flash for most video delivery scenarios and MP4 replacing the FLV container as the de facto standard for video. flv videos in 2002, it quickly and surely took off as the default video format for the web which is why all the video content was stored in. Three competing formats dominated the market at the time:Įach with their own quirks and flaky cross platform support. flv’s introduction by Macromedia, when playing a video resulted in much frustration. I still remember the dark days of Internet video, before. flv container was the first ubiquitous file format for video over the Internet.

As promised we’re back with another episode of our Conversion Series and this time it’s going to be more technical than usual because I’m going to teach you everything you need to know about how to convert an FLV file to an MP4 with FFmpeg.

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