?about transfering capture profile to MMC 7.5

[gtrz]

I've been screwing around the last 2 days with the Windows
Media Encoder 7.1.You can make your own capture profiles(bit
rate,format,res,etc.So I make this profile and I can see it
if I open up programs/Windows Media Components/Encoder/profiles as a .prx file.Problem is the
Windows media encoder(used as actual capturing program)is
very slow compared to MMC 7.5.You can choose,from MMC 7.5,
various codecs(even Windows Media)for custom capture and
then it gives you the various choices for res and bit rate
(one that I liked was local use)only problem is it's just
too stressful for my proc.Now I can see and choose from the
same profiles from MMC as there are in the encoder path I
wrote about but I don't see my personal profile.Why?Is there
anything I can do to stick it in there.I look at programs/
ATI/TV and I don't see any folder I can stick this in or otherwise figure a way to reference it.This gets a little
over my head.Can anyone throw me a bone.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: gtrz on 2001-12-31 18:19:36 ]</font>

[gtrz]

Well I figured part of it out.The file that the MMC uses
for its Windows Media Codecs is Windows/WMSysPrx
Now if I can figure how to get an additional profile in there.Already tried to copy and paste the profile I made into it,didn't work.Any ideas?Anybody care?

[Greg12]

why is MMC 7.5 hard to find.

[gtrz]

Still messin around with this one and I simply did a little
hacking to the WMSysPrx file and changed one of the profiles
to my liking.I changed the audio to 64 Kbps,the video bitrate to 800 Kbps,the detail quality to 100,and the resolution to 400x300.When you're changing to a custom capture in MMC 7.5 it is still called(Local use-Windows Media)but reflects all the new parameters that are changed.
You could change any of the Windows Media profiles you want.I know many of you might think I'm waisting my time on Windows Media but I think you really ought to check it out.
These settings would give you about 100+ minutes of really pretty decenty quality video and audio to 1 cd
(with absolutely no postproccesing
needed)also,on my computer(a 900 Thund. oc. to 1500)I get
<1% frame loss.If you get into it yourself you can easily
change any of these settings too,all I did was open it up
in wordpad.I've tried various bitrates from about 1100 on down and detail quality from 100% and down.I prefer the higher quality setting(it will give just a hint of jerkiness
but it's worth it).The 64 Kbps sound is really good enough
for me(near cd quality sound).If anyone would be interested
in trying this file just the way I have it now without monkeying around with it yourself I would be more than happy
to e-mail it to you.All you have to do is replace the one
that's there in Windows and you're good to go.See ya..

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: gtrz on 2002-01-03 05:04:14 ]</font>

[cofferscuffs]

@ Greg12

MMC 7.5 IS NOT hard to find. Look on rage3d's forums and there is a thread about 6 pages long. It's also on Warp2Search and on Morpheus.

@ gtrz

Intresting info, but are you limited to any resolutions, or can you do like 720x576 or 352x576??

[gtrz]

As far as I know you could change it to any res(so long
as the codec supports it)I'm just kind of fond of 400x300
cause I think it's a good size/quality setting to fit on
a cd that's do-able with my processor speed.P.S. if you do
it yourself and you're changing the audio bit rate you have
to do more than just change the(bit rate),you have to change
more settings on the audio profile.I just did a comparison to one of the other profiles in the file that had the 64 K
bit rate and changed all the proper settings in it.But with
the video there's like 2 places you change the bit rate and
3 places to change the res and then there's the quality setting in just 1 spot(1 to 100).Easy as pie to see.I kind
of looked in the registry and other files to see if I could
change the default capture profile of the divx codec but I
can't figure it out.I think there's a small prog that will
do that though isn't there?If anyone knows how to do it manually I'd be interested in knowing.Problem is you still
have to re-encode the audio with this into mp3,right.The
thing I like about the Windows codec setup is ALL of it is
instantly compressed,no messing around later.