WMV to MPEG Question

[gggh12002]

I am a very, very, very new newbie. I just recently learned to spell WMV and MPEG. Please have patience. My question regards converting WMV to MPEG. After conversion, some MPEG files will only show the video portion for a few seconds and then freeze. The audio continues until the end of the file, but the video will never proceed past the point where it stopped. Sometimes, I download MPEG files that already contain that symptom. Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

thank you
gggh12002

[Baldrick]

Hi and welcome to our forum!

what software are you using?

[gggh12002]

Thank you. Listing my software would help. You can really tell I'm new and don't know what I'm doing.

I use a converter I purchased from Boilsoft, version 3.6.1. I also sometimes use a converter called MPEG4 (I'm at work at this time and can't remember who wrote this one). I use Windows Media player as my viewer.

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[mats.hogberg]

wmv is one of the worst sources you can work with, imo.
For the simple approach, go for Super.
Otherwise, Use AviSynth, frame serve to some encoder like hcenc

/Mats

[nbarzgar]

Converting wmv to mpeg is one of the most trying tasks you can set yourself, imo. I've been around video-capturing, -conversion and playback for over 4 years, but getting working mpeg-1/-2-files from wmv seems to be near impossible in a single step/application.

You may want to try WinAvi Video Converter, it produces files that are in synch, the main problem usually. The drawback: very often the bitrate is way beyond any specs for mpeg2/DVD-files. It is not possible to control that inside the app. So playback on a standalone may be faulty.

Other encoders - Canopus, CCE or Mainconcept - produce great quality but in case of wmv-to-mpeg conversion the resulting files are out of synch in 9 cases out of 10.

The 'short' step-by-step suggestion:
1. Use one of the mentioned encoders (or TMPGenc, of course, also great quality, just rather slooow) to encode to mpeg2- (or mpeg-1 for VCD) elementary video. Follow specs on this side (upper left-hand corner for specs + guide-section)
2. Extract the audio with Virtualdub-MPEG2 (still supports wmv/asf-format) to .wav.
3. Use Audacity or Goldwave to resample the audio to 48MHz.
4. Follow this guide to get audio and video in synch: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=140540 and refer to this post inside the thread for instructions on Goldwave: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=441713#441713
5. Author with TMPGEnc DVD Author or similar (VCDEasy, for VCD)

Any help or guidance for the single steps are to be found in the tools-section for the respective tool, clicking right-hand corner of tool-description, where it says "Guides".

Note: should you have problems playing back mpeg2-files in general, first solve those, use GSpot to load the file and watch out for the - possibly - missing codec. Stay away from codec-packs!! Downloading the respective codec as needed is far better, as your system will not be cluttered and ultimately put out of work...

Good luck!! 8)