WMV to Avi convert. quick pls

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WMV to Avi convert. quick pls

Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:29 pm

Excuse me everyone,

I have a urgent question to ask you people. I am searching for a good converting program that is 100% reliable, does only converts 50% of the video and leaves no logo or testscript behind.
I want, no NEED to convert a WMV file to AVI so I can use it in VirtualDub. Furthermore I do not like to get results that take my whole diskspace in.

The wmvfile is just a 15.000kb file and does not need to get a huge 10GB.

I hope you people can help me out quickly, because I am in a rush actually.
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Postby CrackTheSky » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:38 pm

Write an AviSynth script like this:

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DirectShowSource("whatever.wmv")


That should open it in VirtualDubMod and you can convert it in there.[/code]
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:49 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:Write an AviSynth script like this:

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DirectShowSource("whatever.wmv")


That should open it in VirtualDubMod and you can convert it in there.[/code]


Just that?

And then upload into filters?
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:52 pm

Reen@ wrote:
CrackTheSky wrote:Write an AviSynth script like this:

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DirectShowSource("whatever.wmv")


That should open it in VirtualDubMod and you can convert it in there.[/code]


Just that?

And then upload into filters?


Where's my head, ofcourse it cannot go into filters. Sorry for that XD

How do I get AVS files into VirtualDub?
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:55 pm

Why is there no edit button???

I rephrase my question: (again)

What do I do with the AVS file so that a WMV can be uploaded into VirtualDub?

Ok, shoot me when I rephrase again
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:18 pm

....
you drag and drop
:?
a lot of this is covered in this guide
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:01 pm

Kariudo wrote:....
you drag and drop
:?
a lot of this is covered in this guide


I kind of get this error when loading the file, then Vdub creates an defealt.avs.

Did I do something wrong? I used this code for the file (just this one)

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DirectShowSource("dichterbij_150[2].wmv")


Secondly, the tutorial about Avisynth says the AVS files can be played in WMP. Mine does not.
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:08 pm

Oh yes, the error says " Cannot determine file type of "C:Program Files\WMR11\dichterbij_150[2]--default.avs" "
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:13 pm

To add something;

When I uplaod one avi file, I get another error about "VBR Audio detected"
Therefore it introduces up to 327ms of skew for the video stream.

Can I repair this in any way? Or do I need to redo the avifile in a video editing program?
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:24 pm

you need to include the full path of the video that you're trying import.
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there are 2 parts to the file path (both are circled in red)

so let's say that I want to use clip26.avi
I'd do this
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directshowsource("C:\Documents and Settings\Use\My Documents\My Videos\clip26.avi")

you'll notice that the first part is in the explorer bar at the top, and the rest of the file path is: \filename.something

the audio skew is because someone forced variable bitrate audio into the avi stream (the avi container is oly supposed ot have cbr audio instead of vbr)
you could demux, and re-encode your audio as cbr using besweet and then re-mux...but I wouldn't do that unless you need that audio and need it to be synced
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:31 pm

Kariudo wrote:you need to include the full path of the video that you're trying import.
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there are 2 parts to the file path (both are circled in red)

so let's say that I want to use clip26.avi
I'd do this
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directshowsource("C:\Documents and Settings\Use\My Documents\My Videos\clip26.avi")

you'll notice that the first part is in the explorer bar at the top, and the rest of the file path is: \filename.something

the audio skew is because someone forced variable bitrate audio into the avi stream (the avi container is oly supposed ot have cbr audio instead of vbr)
you could demux, and re-encode your audio as cbr using besweet and then re-mux...but I wouldn't do that unless you need that audio and need it to be synced


Thank you for the reply

Still though, I would like to ask you (a really dumb question and I hate to do so) how the ASV file could help me with VDub. Honestly I cannot make it up from the tutorial you gave.
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:37 pm

once you get the file into vdub(/mod) thanks to avisynth, you can go to file-save as and then save it as an avi file (you should probably compress it with huffyuv or lagarith. NOT DIVX OR XVID UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE if you will be editing this footage)

you need to do the avisynth step because windows requested that vdub remove its ability to import the proprietary wmv format...this is a way of getting around that issue
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:48 pm

Actually, that was not my question.

I hate to say this, but I still haven't learned to import a Avisynth file into VDub..

Can't you just tell me? I really really need to finish this urgently, because it is for school and I have no time to work it out myself (which I did the past 5 days)
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:58 pm

I did...drag the avs file to vdub and drop it somewhere inside the program window.
...you do have avisynth right?
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Postby Reen@ » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:08 pm

Kariudo wrote:I did...drag the avs file to vdub and drop it somewhere inside the program window.
...you do have avisynth right?


Yes I do, I just found it hard to imagine I had to drag the file into the program.

Now I just did a few times, but I still get the error. I have 3 different Vdubs. One recalls the error I stated before and the second (1.5.10.1) and third (1.6.17) states "Avi Import Filter error: (Unknown) (80040154)"
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