WMV3 help?

[phatk9999]

Hello guys.

I have a couple of MKV files that has WMV3 on their video stream (says MKVExtract GUI). I tried to rip the video stream using MKVExtract GUI and it produced an AVI file. SInce I wanted to add subs, I now went to VirtualDub to hardcode it, but VirtualDub shows this error: "VideoSourceAVI error: The source format is not acceptable (error code -2) Thinking that MKVExtract might've caused it, I tried to rip the video stream using VirtualDub MOD, but it only shows 3 streams (1 for the sub and 2 for the audio) contrary to MKVExtract which has 4 as shown in this comparison:




Any ideas?

[Baldrick]

can you play the extracted avi(with wmv3) with media player? then you could use avisynth to import it in virtualdub, see https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284288

[phatk9999]

Media Player 10: Did not play
VLC: Did not play too.....

[Baldrick]

does the mkv play in media player? you might need haali media splitter. if it works try avisynth, https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284288

[phatk9999]

i already have Haali.... and Media Player can't play it. VLC can play the MKV though....

[celtic_druid]

VirtualDubMod doesn't list the video stream under streams. Should be no problem opening the mkv in VirtualDubMod since it is using VfW for the video. Just make sure that you have WMV9 VCM installed or ffdshow enabled to handle WMV3 via VfW.

[phatk9999]

Hmm I tried using VirtualDubMOD to save the file into an avi.... but it mnakes my CPU go 100%.... is there an option where I can save the video only and not the audio?

[celtic_druid]

Double click the streams you want to disable.

CPU usage should only hit 100% if you are re-encoding.

[phatk9999]

Will try that idea. Thanks a bunch!

[Baldrick]

so you could open it in virtualdubmod...missed that...