Restoring FLV File To Normal Size When Converting To AVI - Club CDFreaks

Dr. Feelgood · 01-06-2007

I was on youtube not to long ago and came across a documentary split in 4 parts. I used my program to download all 4 videos and converted them to AVI. At 320x240 the video look great, and ok when I maximized the media player. I then burned them to DVD. But the video quality was extremely bad, I could barely see the face of the people in the video.

My question is: is there a program or a way to convert the FLV to AVI, while making the video the same quality and size as the original video that the person uploaded to the website?

*CDan* · 01-06-2007

Short answer is "no".

YouTube videos are horribly compressed and reduced in size. Converting them to DVD-Video will always look bad. You're going from 240 to 480, PLUS going from a very low bit rate to a higher one.

The best conversion tool I've seen in action is the online converter at http://vixy.net/ , which is free.

Dr. Feelgood · 02-06-2007

I tried that site a few times but it never worked. I put the FLV in the bar and hit start, but after 20 minutes I gave up. I did it a few more times but still nothing happened.

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Dr. Feelgood New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 27	Restoring FLV File To Normal Size When Converting To AVI <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> I was on youtube not to long ago and came across a documentary split in 4 parts. I used my program to download all 4 videos and converted them to AVI. At 320x240 the video look great, and ok when I maximized the media player. I then burned them to DVD. But the video quality was extremely bad, I could barely see the face of the people in the video. My question is: is there a program or a way to convert the FLV to AVI, while making the video the same quality and size as the original video that the person uploaded to the website?

01-06-2007	#2 (permalink)
CDan CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,556	Re: Restoring FLV File To Normal Size When Converting To AVI Short answer is "no". YouTube videos are horribly compressed and reduced in size. Converting them to DVD-Video will always look bad. You're going from 240 to 480, PLUS going from a very low bit rate to a higher one. The best conversion tool I've seen in action is the online converter at http://vixy.net/ , which is free.

02-06-2007	#3 (permalink)
Dr. Feelgood New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 27	Re: Restoring FLV File To Normal Size When Converting To AVI I tried that site a few times but it never worked. I put the FLV in the bar and hit start, but after 20 minutes I gave up. I did it a few more times but still nothing happened.

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