FLV, SUPER and man, I've got a headache

[Holonet]

Alrighty, my goal here is to convert an flv file to avi. Yes, this has been touched on, and I've been reading, but I've still got issues.

First off, I tried, just for the heck of it, to use SUPER to do the conversion. I tried converting to DivX and Xvid, leaving the audio on direct stream, since it shows up as MPEG2 - layer 3 on G-spot. Anyway, tried to encode, and SUPER just crashed. I tried several different settings like not using direct stream on anything, manually selecting the resolution, directshow thingy on and off, ffmpeg, etc... In every case, SUPER either crashes or coughs up an error on me. My system is:

Athlon 4200+ dual core
2 GB RAM, etc...

I'm running Windows XP x64 edition, but just installed the 32-bit codecs, as there is squat available otherwise. Virtualdub has no problem with this setup, so I don't think that's it.

Also, my main question is if there is any way to frameserve an flv file, or a program that will run filters in the YUV color space? I notice color space is neglected a lot. I'd like to limit the re-encoding to once if it's possible...so I don't cross over to RGB and back, and also so I can apply filters...FLVSynth?

[guns1inger]

SUPER can only convert one of the FLV variants that YouTube uses. To encode the other, it requires a little help. I use FFDShow, along with SUPER, and never hit a snag. Just tick DirectShowSource and it will use FFDSHow to decode the FLV file.

[Baldrick]

Can't you use avisynth if you use directshowsource(video.flv) and have installed a flv splitter and decoding the flv with ffdshow?

[Holonet]

Thanks a bunch. I didn't know directshow worked on .flv files. I'm just using VirtualDub now for recompressing. Hopefully I won't get any audio issues.

[Holonet]

Ok, ran into an issue. I just realized, when opening the avs file in Virtualdub that it only recongized about 53 minutes of the file (using directshowsource in avisynth). I didn't try any filters yet, just experimented in converting to avi. The actual length is about 1 hr, 56 min. I downloaded the flv file off google video with download helper for Mozilla Firefox. I can open (just not seek or anything) the file in vlc media player, and the original shows the full length, so I THINK I got the full file...haven't tried waiting for it yet. So um yeah...anyone know why that happened?

[Baldrick]

Try latest avidemux and see if it can read the entire clip....if it can you can convert with it also.

[Holonet]

Hmm nope, avidemux would not even open the file, original or avs. I have another avs file that edits another avi file and it didn't want to open that either. The only thing I got it to open was a normal avi file.

I also tried opening the avs file in SUPER, using ffmpeg, directshow decode, no change to video, audio direct stream copy, xvid for video compression, and it still generates an error on me. I seem to have all the luck here...

[Holonet]

Well phooey... I just let the original file run through on VLC media player, and it stopped at the same spot...even though it displayed the full length on the bottom. Oh well...guess I have the downloader to blame...hmm....