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Flash Video (FLV)is a common file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers. In this article, you'll learn how to download FLV videos at ease, convert any videos to or from FLV at ease.

Part 1: Free download any YouTube video or other FLV videos
Part 2 : Convert any video to or from FLV easily and quickly
Part 3: How to rip DVD to FLV with no hassle

Part 1: Free download any YouTube video or other FLV videos

Commonly, many users are bothered that finding an interesting online video but cannot save it on Mac. Actually, it is not hard to download FLV video from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, etc video-sharing sites. If you just need to download FLV videos from YouTube, Free YouTube Downloader for Mac is what you need.  Another more powerful FLV video downloader AllMyTube for Mac, which supports YouTube, Yahoo!, Myspace, Metacafe, and other video-sharing sites.

Part 2 : Convert any video to or from FLV easily and quickly (Mountain Lion included)

If you want to convert FLV to other popular video format to enjoy on the go, a solid FLV converter is a great help. Here,  two programs are introduced to convert FLV videos with high quality and fast speed. 

AllMyTube for Mac: Besides supporting downloading from 100+ videos sharing videos, it's also a poerful video converter. It's an all-in-one solution for FLV videos, including the features of FLV video download, playback and conversion. This powerful  Mac FLV converter has a broad format support, like to MOV, MKV, WMV, M4V, MP4, AVI, MP3.

Video Converter for Mac: It comes handy if you want to edit and enhance FLV videos before converting FLV videos to another format. This easy-to-use FLV Converter for Mac offers a list of common editing features like split, crop and more. In addition, the broad output format support and the list of presets this app provides make the conversion a smooth and easy task.

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Note: If you want to use a more comprehensive video editor, say iMovie, to enhance your FLV videos, here is a detailed instruction for you: import FLV video to iMovie on Mac OS.

Part 3: How to rip DVD to FLV with no hassle on Mac (Mountain Lion included)

Have something interesting on a DVD disc, and want to share with friends online? Don't worry, here we provide an easy way to convert DVD to FLV (DVD to .flv) on Mac, just use this DVD ripper for Mac to rip clips and segments from DVD to edit and merge into a .flv video.

This Mac DVD to FLV Converter could not only convert DVD to FLV but also rip DVD to the other audio and video formats on Mac, e.g. WMV (Windows Media Video), AVI (XviD), MPEG (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG-4), MP4, 3GP, MOV, VOB, ASF, MKV, TS, MP3, M4A, WAV, AC3, MKA, etc.