FLV to GIF - Convert video online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert FLV to GIF:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files on your computer or click the "URL" button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox. The source file can also be audio format. Video and audio file size can be up to 200M. You can use file analyzer to get source video's detailed information such as video codec, duration and bitrate.
2. Set target video format, bitrate, aspect ratio, frame size and frame rate. All audio streams will be removed if the "Mute" option is checked. The target video format can be MP4, AVI, FLV, MPG, MKV, WMV, M2TS, WEBM, ASF, MOV, M4V, RM, VOB, OGV or GIF.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. It will automatically retry conversion on another server if one fails, please be patient while converting. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
FLV vs GIF:
| Name | FLV | GIF |
| Full name | Flash Video | CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format |
| File extension | .flv, .f4v, .f4p, .f4a, .f4b | .gif |
| MIME | video/x-flv | image/gif |
| Developed by | Adobe Systems | CompuServe |
| Type of format | Media container | Lossless bitmap image format |
| Introduction | Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. Flash Video used to be the de facto standard for web-based streaming video. Notable users of it include Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers. | The Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. |
| Technical details | There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same manner as they are within SWF files. The F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format and is starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and developed by Adobe Systems. | GIF supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality. |
| Associated programs | Adobe Flash Player | Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, the GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView, Pixel image editor, Paint.NET. |
| Sample file | sample.flv | sample.gif |
| Wikipedia | FLV on Wikipedia | GIF on Wikipedia |
