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It seems isquint has been discontinued and my God is it hard to find a piece of free video converting software that works. Are there any good free options? Or something under 10 bucks?

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Did you try Handbrake? It is free software, feature-rich and can be used on OSX, Windows and Linux.

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Can you please explain a bit? This does not really qualify as a good answer. – slhck Dec 20 '11 at 9:39
They do have an User Manual and guides: trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/MacGuiGuide – Vlad Dec 20 '11 at 10:30
@slhck - Handbrake is a free video converting software that works. In my opinion, this qualifies as a good answer. Moreover, it works not only on Mac OS X but on Windows and Linux as well. Plus, a CLI version is available. – mouviciel Dec 20 '11 at 10:40
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I know Handbrake very well, @mou. All I'm saying is that a good answer should provide context like what you said in your comment about being cross platform, free and with CLI. Right now this is not the kind of answer we want to encourage on SU. – slhck Dec 20 '11 at 10:43
Noted and updated the answer. Handbrake's website is pretty self-explanatory, though. – Vlad Dec 20 '11 at 10:53
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actually .avi is not a video format, it's a container. What is your purpose? In same cases you could just rename from flv into avi.

If you use VLC as Media Player (on Windows or OS X) then it plays .flv-s just fine.

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It's for playing it on a DVD player that takes USB drives and doesn't read flv. -- I found the aptly named "free video converter", which worked pretty good for some of the videos. Others came out looking awful. – fakaff Dec 26 '11 at 22:07
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