I can not believe it...no FLV converter

[pina_p9]

Now, before you all jump on me like a pack of wild wolves, let me explain myself.

I downloaded about 7 or 9 youtube videos a few hours ago. I used the SWF & FLV player and they came out as they should.

I then got around to puttig some of the videos on itunes. I stumbled upon iSquint. This thing of beauty is so unbelivable easy to use its not even funny. Brilliant piece of software, I'd recommend it to anybody.

Now I also have about 2 or 3 videos that are for song only. Obviously, iSquint didn't do the job, so I searched for something else. I spent the next hour or so looking for something good and found only Xilisoft video converter, iPod Video onverter and ffmpegX. To my shock NOTHING worked! I was amazed! I couldn't believe that there was not a free converter out there, for the Mac, that could handle FLV to MP3 conversion, not to mention something that would directly send it to iTunes, ala iSquint.

But I know that such a program HAS to exist out there somewhere right? Well, I could not find it and it truly has me frustrated.

So, does anyone know if such a free program exists. I don't want to buy the Xilisoft program just yet since it seems to have trouble converting and identifying FLV files.


ANY help/input/suggestions/whatever would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[dtravis7]

Will look around. I use iSquint and never have had one issue. You want to convert this to MP3? Are these audio files in FLV but Audio only? Trying to be sure what you need so I can help. Are you trying to just get the audio from a video?

 

[pina_p9]

Will look around. I use iSquint and never have had one issue. You want to convert this to MP3? Are these audio files in FLV but Audio only? Trying to be sure what you need so I can help. Are you trying to just get the audio from a video?

Yes just the audio from a video. I honestly don't care for 2 of the videos I just want the songs that go with them lol. But yeah I think iSquint is only good for putting them on the video section of iTunes....

 

[dtravis7]

Yes just the audio from a video. I honestly don't care for 2 of the videos I just want the songs that go with them lol. But yeah I think iSquint is only good for putting them on the video section of iTunes....

Ok, I will look around. I once used a free app called BB Demux to get audio out of a DVD. You might have to convert to some other format first like MP4 or whatever before you can rip out the audio. Will get back to you on it. I do it a lot with Music Video DVD's so I can have the music on my iPod.

 

[puaerotch]

If you already have them converted to videos you can watch in Quicktime, use Audio Hijack. You could even hijack it while playing the videos in Safari. This will save it as an .aiff and you can convert it to mp3 in iTunes.

 

[pina_p9]

sounds interesting michaelstumpf, I'll be sure to give it a try; i just hope audio quality doesnt suffer....

 

[Sunlis]

I'm not sure if you can import FLVs into iMovie, but if you can, strip the audio there, and drag it into Garageband. Then Export to iTunes, convert to MP3, and you're done.

 

[dtravis7]

I'm not sure if you can import FLVs into iMovie, but if you can, strip the audio there, and drag it into Garageband. Then Export to iTunes, convert to MP3, and you're done.

I think the FLV's will have to be converted to something else first as I can find nothing for OSX to rip the audio directly out of an FLV. Sunlis, that sounds like it would work. Try converting the FLV to a format playable by Quicktime, then try his suggestion.

 

[Sunlis]

You could always use iShowU.
Play the FLV and record your screen, making sure to have the record system sounds option selected. Also, you'll want to crank up the audio settings, and you can turn the video settings as far down as they'll go (on iShowU).
Once you've recorded it, you can bring the video iShowU makes into iMovie, and go from there.

 

[barrett63]

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[giulio]

Have you tried FFMpegX ? It's quite a swiss army knife.