WMV files

tokubetsu · Post by **tokubetsu** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:58 pm

Is there anyway to encode these in a different format? if you could reccomend a program that would be nice.

Fungie½ · Post by **Fungie½** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:14 pm

If you change the file extension to .asf, you can open it up in TMPGEnc and encode it in that.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 6:19 pm

Reencoding from one lossy codec to another is a bad idea. I'd reccomend against it.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:55 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:Reencoding from one lossy codec to another is a bad idea. I'd reccomend against it.

Well I wouldn't recommend using a lossless codec either if he isn't going to edit with it. Whether or not he uses a lossless codec depends on what he plans to do with the video.

If you want to make an avi file you can create an AviSynth script as follows and import it into vdub.

DirectShowSource("X:\Directory\of\file\filename.wmv")

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:44 pm

Fungie½ wrote:If you change the file extension to .asf, you can open it up in TMPGEnc and encode it in that.

You don't need to change the extension for that.

DirectShowSource("X:\Directory\of\file\filename.wmv")

You'd need to supply a framerate, i.e. DirectShowSource("path",fps=29.97)

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:41 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:Reencoding from one lossy codec to another is a bad idea. I'd reccomend against it.

If I recall corretly, all DVDs store footage in a lossy format. I forget what it's called. Lemme think... OH YEAH! Mpeg!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:48 pm

I am not sure what your point is there Izumi

It's MPEG-2 to be ultimately anal about it, and encoding it to any other format is most likely going to reduce the quality unless the MPEG-2 source is dirty and you run filtering on it to clean the image...

O_O long sentence...