so many problems w/ WMV s

[ramin]

hello everybody

I have some movies in WMV format but there's a problem. I cannot play them in any player except Win Media Player, and with that I can't move forward or backward in the movie. And when I want to convert it to another format I can't!. I used Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Encoder 9, Adobe Premiere, TMPGEnc, VirtualDubMod 1.5.1 (I probably use 1.3 too later) but these softwares cannot even open the video!.

please please please... help me, i found these movies with so much difficulty and I dont want to delete them for nothing.

[jimmalenko]

Sounds like they might need re-indexing. I think I've used asftools to do this job in the past.

[ramin]

hey Jimmalenko,

thanx for the program but it didn't work.

I forgot to mention; when I play the movie in the middle it stops automaticaly, and as I said before I can't move the slidebar

[scottie78]

There's video fixing tools listed here https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=12#12 . Maybe one of them might help.

[ramin]

none of them worked scottie,

thanx alot anyway

[lordsmurf]

I usually find this is because the file is actually incomplete.

[underwurlde]

Hi!

WMV = God awful things (as you're no dobt finding out) because they are propriatary MicroSoft Codec which 'locks out' freeware converters due to licence issues, uses a variable frame rate & uses a wierd VBR morphic audio bit rate! This makes them 'difficult'!

In the past I have tried (with varying success) converting using GraphEdit:

1) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> Windows Media Source Filter, Insert Filter & select source file that is to be converted.
2) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> ASF ACM Handler, insert filter. (Audio stream)
3) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> ASF ICM Handler, insert filter. (Video stream)
4) Join Stream1 to In of ASF ACM Handler
5) Join Stream2 to In of ASF ICM Handler
6) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> Windows Media Audio Decoder, insert filter.
7) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> Windows Media Video Decoder, insert filter.
8) Join Out of ASF ACM Handler to XForm In of Windows Media Audio Decoder.
9) Join Out of ASM ICM Handler to XForm In of Windows Media Video Decoder.
10) Graph -> Insert Filters: Audio Compressors -> Windows Media Audio V2
11) Graph -> Insert Filters: Video Compressors -> Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
12) Join XForm Out of Windows Media Audio Decoder to Input of Windows Media Audio V2
13) Join XForm Out of Windows Media Video Decoder to Input of Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
14) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> AVI Mux
15) Right Click on AVI Mux filter block & select Filter Properties... Interleaving Tab: Ensure 'Full' is selected. (this is the whole purpose of AVI!)
16) Join Output of Windows Media Audio V2 to Input of AVI MUX
17) Join Output of Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 to input of AVI MUX
18) Graph -> Insert Filters: DirectShow Filters -> File Writer: Select File Name & output path of destination AVI file.
19) Join AVI Out of AVI Mux to In of File Writer block.
20) File -> Save as Graph(.GRF) select filename for graph created, Save.
21) Press Play (green arrow) to convert!

Good luck!

Andy

[ramin]

I guess Lordsmurf is right, they should be incomplete or something

underwurlde, thanks alottt for your attention, I'll try it right away and let you know what i got

[madvideos]

I just tested this in Premiere 6.5. I imported the wmv file, dropped it on the timeline, exported as a vcd. Worked.

[madvideos]

I know what type of video file you are talking about, I don't know if I have any of the ones where FF and RW are killed but they are a booger to edit. It has nothing to do with microsoft, it is the company that made it. There are also many exploits that can be embedded in wmv files, when they are opened they play until the end usually a short video around 500 KB or less, sometimes a little bigger, well when they reach the end Internet Explorer opens to the website of the designers choice, how this is done beats the crap out of me, I must have searched to no end last year trying to get this to work because I was blown away that such a trick is possible. As far as editing these clips, forget it. I would not say it is impossible but a booger to mess with. Procoder would not even convert them, nothing I have tried did the trick.

[raveon]

If the WMV is not damaged this program works very well and is cheap.

http://www.boilsoft.com/

I like the new Microsoft PhotoStory 3 but it only produces WMV. I set it to the very highest quality and then convert the WMV to AVI using boilsoft, ecellent results and no problems even with the latest CODEC from Microsoft.

David

[ramin]

i found the problem. because i'm downloading these wmv with 'Netransport download manager' it makes these damgaes to the files. however, the program itself has an option to make an index for the downloaded file! ( such a headache!)

thanks alot you guys for your time and i really apreciate it