Tips on how to convert FLV to MP4 on Mac

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1. What's FLV

Flash Video (FLV) is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.

2. How to play FLV on Mac
An FLV player is a type of media player that is used for playing flash video from PC as well as from Internet websites. An FLV player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring or developmental tools.
The following players support FLV files in their default installations:
Mplayer OS X
VLC Media player
Free FLV Player for Mac

3. How to convert flv to mp4 on mac
This tutorial is show you how to convert .flv to .mp4 on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Free download and install FLV to MP4 Converter for Mac.
After installing and running the mac flv to mov converter, you will see the main interface as below.

Step 2: Add FLV video files to convert to mp4
Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard drive and select FLV video files you want to convert. This FLV to mp4 video converter for Mac supports drag-drop and batch conversion, so you can import and convert several flv files to mp4 at a time.

Step 3: Select output format as MP4
Use the "format" on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the "Format" label to get format drop-down menu. Select "MPEG-4 Movie" as the output format.


Step 4: Start to convert FLV to MP4 on Mac.
Click "Start" to convert flv to mp4 video for Mac, just forget it and have a cup of coffee.

With Wondershare mac flv to mp4 converter enhanced editing functions, you also can trim, crop, add effect on your video, merge several flv video clips into one file, and extract audio and image from FLV on Mac. Here is a detailed guide about editing FLV video on Mac.

4. What’s the difference between FLV and SWF
FLV stands for “Flash Video”. It is a format designed for web video playback that offers high rates of compression and produces high quality video. FLV is becoming more and more popular on the web since it can easily be embedded in a webpage and is supported by the main operating systems via the Adobe Flash Player and web-browser plug in. At present, FLV is the file format widely used by some famous websites, such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, etc.

More specifically, SWF is a proprietary file format for multimedia and especially for vector graphics. It contains animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function in order to be small enough for publication on the Web. Therefore, SWF is currently the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web which is very popular and be commonly used. What's more, SWF is sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials.

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