How to Download, Convert FLV to WMV on Mac/Windows

WMV is a video compression format developed by Microsoft. Original designed for streaming applications online, and now WMV files are Windows Media Video files, especially used for playback in Windows Media Player (WMP) in Windows computers. Some other portable devices like Blackberry Bold support to play WMV files, too. And FLV files are Adobe Flash Videos, commonly used with streaming video websites like YouTube.

This article mainly focuses on WMV to FLV conversion for assisting you to accomplish this task on Mac or Windows OS computer with ease, it includes:

• Part 1: How to convert FLV to WMV on Mac/Windows
• Part 2: How to download FLV video files online

Part 1: How to convert FLV to WMV on Mac/Windows

To do so, you need some professional FLV to WMV converter like Video converter platinum for Windows and Video Converter for Mac. The article detailedly introduces the Windows FLV to WMV conversion step by step. If you need do the job on Mac, say, convert FLV to WMV on Mac (Snow Leopard,  OS X Lion included), you can go to the User Guide of Video Converter for Mac for more info.

Step 1. Import video(s) to the FLV to WMV converter

Run the FLV to WMV Converter on your PC, click "Add video" and add the WMV videos you want to convert. This converter supports batch conversion so that you can add more than one WMV file for converting.

Step 2. Edit videos (Optional)

Select any video and click "Edit video", so you can edit the video by clipping, cropping, adding watermarks to, etc. Learn more: Video Converter user guide. If you want to keep the original video content, you can jump to next step.

Step 3. Set output format(s)

Hit the "Advanced" button and select FLV as the output format(s) in the list. If you are about to do FLV to WMV conversion for uploading the files onto YouTube, you here can directly choose the preset for YouTube then you can get the files with the compatible resolution, frame rate, bite rate etc. according to the site's requirement. Click "Tools>Preferences" and set the output directory.

Step 4. Start to convert FLV to WMV

Click "Start" when everything is set, and then the FLV to WMV conversion will be completed automatically for you. You can find the converted videos by clicking "Find Target".

Part 2: How to download FLV video files online

To learn how to download FLV video files online, you can go to this step by step guide: YouTube Downloader User Guide. This is available for any online sites.