Anyway to make .flv-files seekable?

[somebody231]

I've used www.keepvid.com so far to get the videos from Youtube and I can watch them with VLC Player, a known player.

The only problem is that these files aren't seekable, you can't "go back 5 secs ago" in it or "seek to a part you wish" , if the lenght of the clip was over 5min for example. Painful.
Can someone help me with this? Any ideas?

 

[Janus4385]

You can use a video converter to make avis or wmvs out them. Cinemaforge is an easy to use program which gets the job done:

http://www.download.com/CinemaForge/3000-2169_4-10373646.html

 

[somebody231]

But can a .flv-file be made seekable without changing its format? Sure I can change the format, but just asking 🙂

 

[somebody231]

Thanks! The CinemaForge works miracles, is fast and easy to use and better yet: Doesn't leave traces (No "recently opened files" -lists, which I despise)
Thank you! 😉

 

[Kalamos]

With Window Media Classic player you can without touching the flv files.
Grab the full version, with Flv codecs.

-> http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

 

[somebody231]

One question: How can you stop CinemaForge from throwing .jpg files to my desktop after every encoding/conversion?

 

[Janus4385]

On the right side, where the video options are, the last one says "thumbnail". Set it to "none". That should take care of it 😀

 

[somebody231]

lol sorry for being so dumb... thought it would make the thumbnail preview thingy go away (the one that shows up when you select a file)

 

[Janus4385]

Honest mistake, hopefully you're all set with this.
Feel free to drop me a pm if you ever need help with anything like this again 😉