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Step 3: Converting FLV files to DivX (AVI)

This step will allow you to convert the FLV file to an AVI/DivX file using Dr. DivX. Dr. DivX was chosen to be used in this guide because it supports opening FLV files and can convert to DivX with little fuss. However, it does not support FLV4 files (eg. those used by Metacafe) and there is now a more comprehensive guide on FLV to AVI conversion that allows you greater control over the conversion process (including the support for FLV4 files and ther ability to convert to XviD) - it's slightly more difficult than the method listed below, but if you're interested or have FLV4 files (you'll get an error in Dr. DivX saying "the file is not decodable"), please head on to our FLV to AVI Conversion Guide.

Download and install Dr. DivX (assuming you have already installed the DivX codec). Start Dr. DivX and you should see this screen:



Click on the "Open" button next to the "Input file(s)" box and load in your FLV file. You might have to change the "Files of type" setting to "All Files" to be able to see the FLV file. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the FLV file into the "Input file(s)" box.

On the right hand side, enter a file name under the "Title" section and click on the "..." button to the right to select the output directory.



There are lots of option to configure, especially in the "Advanced" section (please refer to the DivX 6 Setup Guide for more information on these advanced settings), but for the purpose of this tutorial, simply select one of the "DivX Profiles" (High Definition, Home Theatre, Portable and Handheld) that suits what you plan to do with the file. You can also select a "Quality" setting (the software will try to encode a video to this quality, but the file size might not be predictable), or alternatively limit the output file to a certain size.



When you are done, press the "Encode" button and the current encoding will be added to the job queue.



Press the "Resume" button to start the encoding and after a short while, you should now have a ".divx" file. You can change this ".divx" file to ".avi" to make it into an AVI file (if you cannot see the file extension, you can enable it in Windows by going into Tools -> Folder Options -> View and deselecting the "Hide extension for known file types" option" - see this image for more details).

Now that the file is in AVI format, you can now convert it to many other types of files much more easily. You can even re-encode the file to XviD if you wish using AutoGK.

And we're done

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