The fastest WMV encoder in the land

[bookbiz]

I have 200+ 90-minute episodes of a TV series that I need to convert to WMV format for use in a Portable Media Player (Creative Zen Vision).

The episodes are encoded in MS MPEG-4 v2 format with MP3 audio.

Can anyone recommend a really, really fast WMV encoder to produce 320X240 video at 384 kbps video with 128 kbps audio and 29.97 fps?

Who makes the fastest WMV encoder?

[whitejremiah]

may not be the fastest, but tmpgenc 3 xphas a batch mode, so you can just add everything to the list and let it rip...........probably gonna take some solid days to complete though....

[redwudz]

Uh, Microsoft. If you use a MS codec, you might as well use the MS encoder. If you have 90 Minute X 200 episodes = 300+ hours of video you are going to be doing this for a long, long time.

Since you didn't fill out your computer details, it's impossible to give much more advice.

[celtic_druid]

What codecs? No reason why you can't have MS MPEG4 V2 and mp3 in a WMV container.

For WMV9 (VC-1) I don't think that there are any implimentations other than MS'. For WMV7/8 you have libavcodec. No idea if it is faster than MS' encoder though.

[bookbiz]

The bitrate of the source material is too high for the Portable Media Player. It has to be recoded to reduce the bitrate, no matter what container it's in.

[mikiem]

*Might* be able to speed things up using avisynth?

For the encoding times may or may not be able to do anything meaningful, but for decoding (which a lot of software does very slowly), avisynth might provide a boost?