As of now, there are so many video upload services availabe in the wild, e.g., , , PornoTube, and many more. The secret behide all of them is flash video format and flash video player as I blogged earlier. Most of visitors who really like some videos might want to download them to play later offline on their computer. It is not easy for newbie to find the correct links to download FLV or to save FLV successfully even on simple services. That's why some guys would like to offer web sites to automate this process from given URL, for example, Javimoya, VideoDL. Javimoya also offers a Firefox Extension called VideoDownloader for retrieving URL instantly through Firefox. As a result, you will be able to download FLV and save it on your harddisk. Well, my linux box, Ubuntu Dapper, can't play FLV nicely. In particular, mplayer can play FLV but seek. I can't seek all FLV in mplayer. So I hope to fix it by converting FLV to AVI.

Converting FLV to AVI on Linux box is very simple by just a command. All you need is [FFmpeg][]. If you don't have one, run sudo apt-get install ffmpeg. To convert mv.flv to mv.avi. You should run FFmpeg as follow.

ffmpeg -i mv.flv -y mv.avi

Done! You will get mv.avi in a few minutes.

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