WMV to AVI ?

[pmoscatt]

Hi All,

I have a series of WMVs that I would like to convert across to AVI and so far I have onlt seen guides that would end up doing it in possibly 2 steps which may result in a degraded output.

Anyone had experience in this conversion but maintain quality ?

Pete

[drewzor]

Unfortunatly decompressing wmv and recoding into a mpeg4 (avi) like xvid or divx throws away too much data. The only success I have had in the past is to convert the original to a lossless codec like huffy and after that add filters and compress to xvid

[pmoscatt]

Thanks Drewzor..... never heard of Huffy but I will be checking it out.

Pete

[Baldrick]

Windows movie maker and export to dv-avi.

But why convert to avi? what is your goal?

[pmoscatt]

Good question Baldick, I guess the objective is to create a file that has a smaller file size than the original and be usable across multiple platforms where the WMV is pretty much for Windows Media Player.

Pete

[guns1inger]

You won't get much smaller without sacrificing quality, and depending on the codec, the avi container isn't much more universal. Mpeg1 is probably the closest you will get to universal playback across platforms, and you won't do it for the size.

[republicOfunk]

I would think for playability on new dvd players such as Philips DVP 5960. With the usb that rocks the shizz when hucked up to a external hdd.

EAT THAT MICROSOFT!

[guns1inger]

I'm sorry - can you repeat that in English ?

[handyguy]

XBMC can play this format. You could then output to a dvd recorder & get a decent conversion.

Of course, that requires an xbox.......