Converted 2GB 1080P WMV to MP4 in 2 Minutes - Don't Remember The Software

[72Mehdi]

I had to restore a back-up due to a virus and lost some software I recently installed included a program that converted (I'm guessing it changed the container) a 2GB 1080P WMV file into MP4 in literally a couple of minutes. I've spent hours downloading and installing software but cannot remember what the hell it was called, video converter or something like that? It had a very simple interface. It isn't any of the following :

Free Studio
H264 Encoder
MPEG Streamclip
MKV2VOB
Super
YAMB

Any ideas?

[poisondeathray]

Are you sure? I don't think wmv is compatible in .mp4 container. And nothing would re-encode that fast (it must have been re-wrapped, not re-encoded)

[72Mehdi]

Are you sure? I don't think wmv is compatible in .mp4 container. And nothing would re-encode that fast (it must have been re-wrapped, not re-encoded)

100% positive. Yes it re-wrapped, it does the same job as MKV2Vob only with WMV files.

[Baldrick]

I haven't seen any such tool.

Do you have one of those mp4 with wmv? Does it play fine? ANd does mediainfo say that it is wmv or vc1 video?

[72Mehdi]

It's mkv not MP4. Here's the one I converted :

Format : Matroska
File size : 2.51 GiB
Duration : 29mn 36s
Overall bit rate : 12.1 Mbps
Writing application : Lavf52.34.0
Writing library : Lavf52.34.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L3
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 29mn 34s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive

Audio
ID : 2
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 29mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz

And here's the one I am trying to convert :

Format : Windows Media
File size : 2.48 GiB
Duration : 29mn 13s
Overall bit rate : 12.2 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 12.1 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2009-11-12 00:54:08.000

Video
ID : 2
Format : VC-1
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 29mn 11s
Bit rate : 12.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 16 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.193
Stream size : 2.45 GiB (99%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : WMA
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : 161
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Duration : 29mn 13s
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 26.8 MiB (1%)

[poisondeathray]

for mkv you could use haali muxer (comes with haali media splitter) , but in that example the audio is different wma v2 has been converted to mp3

you might also be able to use ffmpeg (you can try avanti for a front end)

why would you want to change container?

[Baldrick]

Tried mkvmergegui / mkvtoolnix ?

[72Mehdi]

Tried mkvmergegui / mkvtoolnix ?

The file is an unsupported container format (Windows Media (ASF/WMV)).

[72Mehdi]

for mkv you could use haali muxer (comes with haali media splitter) , but in that example the audio is different wma v2 has been converted to mp3

you might also be able to use ffmpeg (you can try avanti for a front end)

It's taking forever. There are 52000 frames. There must be a simple way to change the container?

why would you want to change container?

Because 1080P WMV files are the only format that will not playback on my WDTV V2 media streamer.