Fla to flv?

Hi,
Having already pulled my hair out, I have nothing else to
grab.
Once upon a time, I made a web site for a friend that has an
old Flash 5 cartoon in it. That friend wants the cartoon converted
to an flv file. Not sure why, but I think he wants to upload it to
YouTube.
The cartoon was made on an old Mac in Flash5, and the flv
file has to be opened on a PC. I still don't have parallels on my
iMac.
A) Can it be done?
B) How?
Thanks

i do practice full-time pediatrics in southern california.
that's my main occupation and what i put on my irs forms.
flash was strictly a hobby that started when i joined a
"clan" (BBH) playing quake2 years ago when i inherited the
maintainance of our clan website.
since then my interest in flash has evolved into a consulting
business but that business is far from my main source of income.
there's just no way computer programming/flash can pay as much as
medical practice.
in addition, i am a medical expert and asked to give my
opinion on various issues related to pediatrics. that pays even
better than my medical practice and much better than flash
consulting.
but i love flash and still enjoy coding and the problem
solving that's required. i enjoy nothing more than to have a large
flash project to complete while i'm on vacation.
the flash snippets i created for a variety of reasons. as you
can see most of them are related in some way to mathematics which
is also something i enjoy and my original career. and most of those
snippets arose because of someone's post in the adobe
forums.

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