Converting to WMV with no audio

[Namrepus221]

I have a bunch of small AVI's that I made that have no audio in them to save space (They were clips from a video game)

Is there anyways I can convert them to WMV or ASF without having to convert them to MPEG and add in a blank audio track?

[Tommyknocker]

I do know that Video Studio can convert AVI to WMV.

[Namrepus221]

Umm what's "Video Studio"?

Ulead?

I'm just trying to figure it out cause Windows media encoder won't do anything because all of hte AVI's don't have an audio track and it says you need one for some reason to encode to a WMV

[Cornucopia]

The "some reason" is that ALL .WMV files require an audio track.

So make a silent mono track and add it to the timeline of your video editor and export the combined AV track to the WMV encoder.
Use a custom profile where you allocate the lowest possible bitrate to audio (either ZERO or something like 5kpbs) and then use the rest of your available bitrate as video.

Scott

[Namrepus221]

Ummmm What?

I don't have a video editor. I only have like VDub, TMPGE, and Windows Media Encoder.

Care to explain how to do what you said as well?

I only know how to do video editing on a real video editor like a Switcher or something like that involving 2 VCR's. I've never tried anything with a digital editor

[Namrepus221]

I just downlaoded an installed the Ulead trial and it doesn't work.

I can't export a file.

and I get C++ run time errors all the time and I can't do anything else it crashes.

HELP

[secretagent]

try stoik video converter at www.stoik.com (freeware)

[Namrepus221]

Tried many months ago with Stoik.

Stupid thing wouldn't let me do anything.

Luckily I found that if I re-encode the files I have with VDUB and add on a Blank wav file.

It works pretty well