Convert 3gp video to flv in Ubuntu

1.Transfer the video from your cell-phone to the computer.
2.Upload the video in 3gp format to YouTube. Don’t worry if in your computer you cannot hear any sound, it is there, but you just don’t have the codec to play it.
3.Save the video as private... unless of course you don’t mind anybody seeing that unedited video.
4.Play the video from YouTube in your browser
5.Go to the tmp folder, it will now be there in flv format.

3gp is a video format which I get when filming videos from my cell-phone (which has Windows Mobile). They maybe can be played in Windows, but not in Ubuntu... typical, Windows making life difficult for those who don’t want to pay them (or make pirate copies). I have read other ways to convert the video, but somehow didn’t manage to make them work after several attempts.

Of course, once you have it in flv, you can convert it to any other format using ffmpeg.