Suggest good FLV player and converter

ashvarybabul

ashvarybabul

Level D
Hello Everyone,

I has downloaded some videos from Ustream's live broadcast through Replay Media Catch software and the videos downloaded are in FLV format.
Now playing these video is real pain in a$$. The duration reflected is wrong (shows some 20 hrs for 5 hr video) and moving it forward and backward in no way accurate and slider moves to specific timings only.

At the moment, I am using Applian FLV player that comes with Replay Media Catcher. Neither VLC nor MPC is playing it smoothly. Plz suggest some good player to play them

Also, plz suggest a good converter to convert them into other formats. I have one, but it is taking days to convert them as these FLV reflect time length more than they actually have.
Suggest something which can juice max from my CPU and GPU to make conversion quicker.

Plus, if someone know good alternate that Replay media catcher for recording Ustream videos, please suggest..

Thanxx
 
MPC home cinema plays flv without any problems. It can play flash games too. Maybe problem is with the flv you downloaded.
Use FlvExtract from Moitah.net
It demuxes flv files into video, audio files. Then you only need to mux the raw video and audio into another container like mkv/mp4 with mkvgui or mp4box.
FLv video's are already optimised so no need to further encode or do any work on them.
 
Some problems solved.

The Replay Media catacher was having a option of Fix FLV.. however till now i was fixing file duration and today I noticed a very tiny option of fix file contents which has solved the problem of playing.. Everything is smooth now.

However, could you suggest a video converter, which makes optimal use of CPU and GPU for file coversion
 
VLC is also good for playing .flv files but occasionally it give's problem mainly for HD videos as in (flv) format.

As @6pack said for live streaming it's already optimised.
If u want to convert use Format Factory,but u wont see any remarkable difference.:)
 
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ashvarybabul said:
However, could you suggest a video converter, which makes optimal use of CPU and GPU for file coversion
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Almost every decent converter will make full use of the CPU and all the threads available.

As for GPU acceleration, some of the ones I know are Arcsoft MediaConverter, Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso and Xilisoft Video Convertor. All are paid. BTW the if you have a Sandybridge CPU, use intel's quicksync conversion, much much faster than ATI/nVidia's acceleration.
 
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