Last week I posted some terrible news regarding the new Jetstream video format. I have tried various ways of converting these .flv files to different formats including .wmv and .avi all to no avail.

Although I had success converting to .avi, the audio goes out of sync immediately upon seeking. No matter what FPS settings I use (the native .flv seems to be 30fps) the audio always goes out of sync with the video.

A commenter suggested the following:

Just drag and drop the FLV file into the program window and it’ll automatically split it into audio and video files, which you can then easily rejoin through a program like mkvmerge (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/downloads.html) I’m sure there are others, and you may want to search for one as, from my tests, re-merged files come out as the slightly-strange .mka format, which plays in VLC media player but might have difficulty in others.

I would prefer to keep the files a more popular video codec that most people would be able to play without any external codecs or players required for download. I also have a deep desire of hate for VLC media player.

I have uploaded the episodes of BoBoBo and Blue Dragon(Note: Blue Dragon 5 is missing. These episodes are only available for 7 days, rather than the usual 21+ days for every other show. I unfortunately did not get another backup of these parts.) to a temporary folder on our server for you guys to download and experiment for yourselves and try to convert them to a single common video codec, or if you just want to download and archive these .flvs, you are more than welcome to. I appreciate any more help or suggestions you may have.

Click here for a directory listing for these files.

The start of last week, Toonami thought it would be a good idea for their Jetstream site to be more MAC friendly. Thus they have switched the streaming video format from the standard WMV to the flash video codec FLV.

This is terrible news for me. Although grabbing the actual parts off the website isn’t any difficult (with a change in programs used) the merging and output is considerably more difficult. I have tried converting each .FLV part to a .WMV codec but to no avail. I have tried numerous programs, all with the same result of failure.

I am not entirely sure what I am to do now. Do I continue to painstakingly try dozens of programs only to result in failure? Honestly, I do not think I have the tolerance level to come to a working conclusion by myself. The only other option there seems to be until then is to release the raw .FLVs and direct people on where to get an FLV Player.

I will consider doing this, but I would like to somehow stick to a more common video format with more features. If you have any ideas or suggestions as to what I should do regarding the future of our releases, please please please email me or leave a comment.

Edit: I will provide temporary links to the the raw .FLV parts (of last weeks, this weeks, and all future weeks), and  hopefully sometime later be able to convert them to 1 file  to a different format/codec. As commenter will said, it is better to have the  parts available in another format, than no other parts at all. Check back here tomorrow evening for more news regarding this.

Thanks.