Today, converting Youtube or Google videos into Avi so you can watch on your Ipod, TV or whatever you want to do with it is useless because of the low quality video it yields. Vixy’s conversion utility is known for its Efficiency and high quality of the conversion (lossless conversion.) Vixy_.net has given us that option on its online conversion but their website is so crowded it doesn’t work everytime or, if not at all. They have not offerred an offline conversion until recently. Vixy now (probably from Japan) offers to release this engine as an 0pen s0urce, and now capable of running on your PC with lightening speed.
SAMPLE OF GOOD CONVERSION (above)
These images above shows the result of the effective conversion.
SAMPLE OF BAD CONVERSION (below)
These images below show you how the typical before and after conversion. After the conversion the images are blurred.
<—- Before (without vixy)
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<—- After (without vixy,) notice the blurred corners. This is the typical problem of a bad encoder.
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I recently found this compiled version of this utility on soureforge.net and I’m documenting how to use it. Because it runs on a shell program, I might as well put this in my blog so I don’t forget how to use it. There is no simple, detailed help on this subject yet on the web makes us wonder why aren’t anybody utilizing this really amazing tool, which is capable of making the input and output size of the video nearly unchanged. Copy the compiled program and your video into the C directory. Run the shell command and type this.
flvtompeg4 [source].flv [destination].avi. I will upload the utility later. In the mean time, to convert your videos go here Vixy_.net or one other site, which I can’t recall.
Well if you want to compile, see:
http://furnation.com/index.php?s=c6ac58daa34b608f7185c176e0c049bd&automodule=blog&blogid=32&showentry=482
And if you just want the binary, download from:
http://pastorale.jpn.org/binary/20070106_flv2mpeg4.zip
Thanks