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Anyway to get windows movie maker to accept other files

Postby Spec260 » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:06 am

I have mkv and ogm files but I dont wanna convert all for windows movie maker accepts them. Is there anyway around this or another program similar that will accept them?

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Re: Anyway to get windows movie maker to accept other files

Postby Moonie » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:13 am

Spec260 wrote:I have mkv and ogm files but I dont wanna convert all for windows movie maker accepts them. Is there anyway around this or another program similar that will accept them?

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There arent any editing programs that use those formats.
Sorry but you are gonna have to convert them^^
You can use virtualdub mod for that
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Postby Moonie » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:18 am

Its not much work to convert it in virtual dub mod.
You can just select the scenes you want and convert them instead of converting the whole video.
Thats what i do whenever i use one of those formats.
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Re: Anyway to get windows movie maker to accept other files

Postby Radical_Yue » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:20 am

Spec260 wrote:I have mkv and ogm files but I dont wanna convert all for windows movie maker accepts them. Is there anyway around this or another program similar that will accept them?

Thanks



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Re: Anyway to get windows movie maker to accept other files

Postby DeinReich » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:04 am

Radical_Yue wrote:
Spec260 wrote:I have mkv and ogm files but I dont wanna convert all for windows movie maker accepts them. Is there anyway around this or another program similar that will accept them?

Thanks



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Re: Anyway to get windows movie maker to accept other files

Postby Radical_Yue » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:25 am

SOAD2k8 wrote:
Radical_Yue wrote:
Spec260 wrote:I have mkv and ogm files but I dont wanna convert all for windows movie maker accepts them. Is there anyway around this or another program similar that will accept them?

Thanks



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Eh~ It was late and I was bored ^^

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Extract the video stream from OGM/MKV containers

Postby Gepetto » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:49 pm

NO!

Learn the correct terminology. You don't want to convert anything. Yo want to [color=dark blue]extract the video stream into an AVI file[/color]. Converting = quality loss unless you use a lossless codec, but that takes up a lot of space and you should only do so if necessary.

Here's how you do it:

1: open the MKV/OGM in virtualdubmod,
2: go to the "streams" tab, deactivate all audio,
3: then go to the "video" tab and select "Direct Stream Copy"
4: now File>Save As... and save as an AVI.

You'll have the video with no audio in AVI. If the file doesn't open in VDM, load it through a directshowsource AVS with the killaudio() command.

IF IT STILL DOESN'T WORK, you need to convert to lossless:
1: Download HuffYUV.
2: Open VirtualDubMod again, deactivate the audio, but this time select "Fast Recompress" on the video tab.
3: Video>Compression, select HuffYUV.
4: File>Save As...

Done. You have a huge lossless AVI file. If it's too big, then save clips rather than entire episodes.
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