WMV conversion problem

[NeoGeo-x]

Recently, my computer has been suffering under an inability to convert to *.WMV-files. I've tried several programs and all of them showed that my machine was unable to convert to this filetype. With these same pieces of software, I tried converting to other formats which did succeed. I believe that the mistake is codec-related, somehow..but I can't figure out what. What could be wrong and/or how could I fix it?

[Bjs]

Windows movie maker ... output 3 minute clip's as dv avi ... pal or ntsc ... encode later using other tool's .

Super has wmv capabilities ... just depend's what output you need to convert too .

Those that come from server's may be liscenced wrapped ... without it , you are not going anywhere fast ...

And ulead video studio , 9se in ebay cheap .

It is why I tell people to avoid downloading video's from the net ... not only are they poor in quality ... but they call me to get them unstuck .

I have seen some absolute rubbish ... and they still want it on dvd .

[zoobie]

It sounds like something is preventing the codec from operating properly.
Maybe post back with more details if not fixed.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Use AVICodec on the source file and see if your PC has the correct codecs.If you must convert to WMV use Windows Media Encoder.

[Ai Haibara]

Also, you can try tools which rely on their own codecs and not Windows' codecs/DirectShow filters, such as ffmpeg and mencoder (or if you'd rather have a GUI over the command-line interface, there's SUPER (as Bjs mentioned, which is a frontend to ffmpeg, mencoder, x264, and others), MediaCoder (which I haven't tried), and a few others.)

[NeoGeo-x]

So there is no way to output to WMV directly? This way is only gonna take more of my time and valuable disc space... :/

Thanks for the replies, though!

[jimmalenko]

Have you tried reinstalling Windows Media Codecs 9 again ?

[NeoGeo-x]

Have you tried reinstalling Windows Media Codecs 9 again ?

I have, and sadly the problem was not resolved.

[zoobie]

Try asking here
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showforum&forumid=1
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