Quality...

[cfeaugas]

I am converting an .flv file into another format... which format do you recommend that will give me the most quality?

thank you

[Baldrick]

You can't really improve the quality by converting to another format. Garbage In Garbage Out.

Why do you need to convert?

[zoobie]

everytime you convert, you lose some quality

[redwudz]

Just to add.. What do you want to play it back on? If it's a DVD set top player, encoding to MPEG-2 would be a good choice. If you have a Divx set top player, you could use that format. But if you only want to play it back on a computer, then I would leave it as .flv.

With encoding, the bitrate you choose is what usually sets the quality. If the file is short, less than a hour, you could use about 9500Kbps for a MPEG-2 bitrate to get the best quality. Or use a bitrate calculator to set a bitrate to fit your media size.

[offline]

It will not get too much worse if you convert at a high bitrate. Expect some loss of quality and a large increase in file size though. For conversion, try super.