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Hi there,

Is it possible to download a streaming video & convert it to various formats like MP4, MP4 for Nokia cells & MP3 etc using VLC?

Hoping to hear from you experienced members,

Regards!

It should, yes.

Could you care to explain or post a sticky link, making it easy for an oldman like me to understand.

Regards!

Yes. Please give step by step instructions on how to convert any video file to mp4 format. I can get the video to work but no sound. Thanks very much.

There isn't any universal guide since different devices/players don't support same MP4 files. Easiest thing is something like but naturally this might not work for example with all mobile phones.

I tried converting a FLV file to MP3 format the quality was real bad. From that can have an idea about its output to MP4?

VLC is great as a player but capturing converting aren’t its Pros?

Thanks & Regards!

I tried converting a FLV file to MP3 format the quality was real bad.

What steps did you do?

I converted a FLV to MP3 using this link............... http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2719/how ... -with-vlc/

Now I use a combo of save2pc Ult & FF 2.60.

Thanks.

WAV encapsulation is wrong option for MP3. Proper one is RAW. And for .FLV files that already contain MP3 audio, you can use tool called FLV Extract.

Thanks..........I'll give it a shot & keep you posted.

What about conversion from FLV to MP4 video for DVDs & MP4 video for Nokia?

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That depends about hardware. You would have to tweak video resolution and x264 encoding options.
For example venc=x264{bframes=0,nocabac,ref=1,nf,level=30,crf=20,partitions=none} and width=720,height=480 to transcoding options.