Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. Video technology was first developed for television systems, but has been further developed in many formats to allow for consumer video recording.
Starting in the late 70s to the early 80s, several types of video production equipment- such as time base correctors (TBC) and digital video effects (DVE) units (two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the NEC DVE)- were introduced that operated by taking a standard analog video input and digitizing it internally. This made it easier to either correct or enhance the video signal, as in the case of a TBC, or to manipulate and add effects …show more content…
Data encoding on the other hand is the compression of a stream in order to decrease its size requiring less bandwidth to transfer it. With the use of specific tools, it is possible to convert different video formats such as AVI, WMV, MPG, MOV etc to FLV files.
A few of the most known FLV Converters are displayed in the following table as well as the original file formats that they support:
Name Input Video format Operating System Developer
Flash Video MX AVI, MOV, WMV, MPG, ASF, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, FLV, 3GP, H264, RM, RMVB Windows Moyea
Kibisis AVI,MPG,MPEG Windows Kibisis
On2 Flix Pro MOV, WMA, ASF,AV, DV, AVI, WMV Windows & Mac On2
Riva FLV Encoder AVI, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MOV, WMV Windows Rothenberger GTS
Video to Flash Converter Pro AVI, ASF, WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG Windows Geovid
Video to Flash Encoder AVI, MOV, WMV, MPG, ASF, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, FLV Windows