Just a question...

[Sadistica]

How do I get a WMV file into an AVI? I use Windows Movie Maker. I need to get it switched over for a Colossalcon video I'm doing. ^_^ Thanks in advance.

[Willen]

What codec are you using for your AVI file? AVI is a container for many types of video (and audio) files.

At any rate, use AviSynth to load the WMV in VirtualDubMod and save it as an AVI using whatever codec you need.

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DirectShowSource("C:\path\myvideo.WMV")

If that doesn't work right, then the ghetto way is to open the WMV in WMM2 and save it as a DV-AVI. Then open in VirtualDubMod with AviSynth as above.

You may need to specify the video framerate in the AviSynth script for better results.

[DeinReich]

What codec are you using for your AVI file? AVI is a container for many types of video (and audio) files.

At any rate, use AviSynth to load the WMV in VirtualDubMod and save it as an AVI using whatever codec you need.

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DirectShowSource("C:\path\myvideo.WMV")

If that doesn't work right, then the ghetto way is to open the WMV in WMM2 and save it as a DV-AVI. Then open in VirtualDubMod with AviSynth as above.

You may need to specify the video framerate in the AviSynth script for better results.

It's probably worth noting that you will need an older version of vdubmod to open .WMVs. Microsoft has a trademark or patent or something like that on the .WMV codec and they asked that support for .WMVs be removed from the newer versions of vdubmod.

[CHAMELEON_D_H]

Export as DV, dump into VDM via avisynth. there was a thread about this in general video some time ago....

[BasharOfTheAges]

How do I get a WMV file into an AVI? I use Windows Movie Maker. I need to get it switched over for a Colossalcon video I'm doing. ^_^ Thanks in advance.

Seema like an obvious answer, but exporting as the correct type from the editing software may be a good start.

[Qyot27]

What codec are you using for your AVI file? AVI is a container for many types of video (and audio) files.

At any rate, use AviSynth to load the WMV in VirtualDubMod and save it as an AVI using whatever codec you need.

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DirectShowSource("C:\path\myvideo.WMV")

If that doesn't work right, then the ghetto way is to open the WMV in WMM2 and save it as a DV-AVI. Then open in VirtualDubMod with AviSynth as above.

You may need to specify the video framerate in the AviSynth script for better results.

It's probably worth noting that you will need an older version of vdubmod to open .WMVs. Microsoft has a trademark or patent or something like that on the .WMV codec and they asked that support for .WMVs be removed from the newer versions of vdubmod.

Not when using AviSynth to serve it in. The Microsoft patent issue only applies if you want to open ASF files (and only certain ones, at that; I've never gotten WMV to work, no matter what I've tried, and ASF is similarly spotty, due to the different types of compression formats that can be used inside them - the only one I think is possible to open is an ASF file which contains an MS-MPEG4 video stream; needless to say, those types of files are scarce now) straight inside VDub, without AviSynth.

[Qyot27]

Not when using AviSynth to serve it in. The Microsoft patent issue only applies if you want to open ASF files (and only certain ones, at that; I've never gotten WMV to work, no matter what I've tried, and ASF is similarly spotty, due to the different types of compression formats that can be used inside them - the only one I think is possible to open is an ASF file which contains an MS-MPEG4 video stream; needless to say, those types of files are scarce now) straight inside VDub, without AviSynth.

To clarify a bit, yes, the ASF dispute also translates over to WMV, but WMV was not the source of the dispute - ASF was.

[sayde]

IIRC, a program called TMPGEnc can also easilly convert wmv format to avi. (though it's main purpose is to convert to mpeg)

[Perfect-Blue]

Windows Media Encoder 7 - wmv to avi
Video Edit Magic ver 3/ver 4 - wmv to avi

[gangstaj8]

IIRC, a program called TMPGEnc can also easilly convert wmv format to avi. (though it's main purpose is to convert to mpeg)

Umm, maybe I'm wrong, but I thought TMPGEnc only encoded into MPEG, not .AVI.