The other day when I needed to convert some wmv videos into flv videos, I promptly googled for some FLV converters and downloaded a couple of them. In a matter of minutes I was able to install and attempt to convert the video files.

Unfortunately neither of them worked on my Vista Business. Both threw exceptions and failed miserably. The last thing I needed was to find fixes for a pair broken software.

Fortunately it was a case of Youtube to the rescue! I had known that one could download FLV videos from Youtube so I proceeded to use the same trick. Using my account I uploaded the wmv videos, setting broadcast to private mode to prevent public viewing (just yet). Once uploaded I just used Firefox Flashgot add-on to download them.Easy huh!

Youtube as an FLV converter application: free, no downloads, far more reliable, fast and processing remotely hence no stress to your local machine. Brilliant!