Help with WMV9 (MP) and WMA pro conversion

[CDIZX3]

I've been a long time reader on here.....this is my first post. First, thanx for all the help in the past.

I just recently bought the new Western Digital WD TV HD media player. This player supports tons of formats including, MKV, AVI, DIVX, AAC, AC3....etc. I have about 15 1080p movies encoded using WMV9 MP and WMA Pro 5.1. The problem I'm running into is that the WD TV box doesn't support WMA Pro so I get no sound. I would like to try to preserve the 5.1 by converting to AAC or AC3 but having a hard time getting anything to work.

I've tried to "demux" the streams with Windows Stream Editor, convert the WMA 5.1 to AC3, and "remux" with MKV but the plyer still won't play it. Is there any way to get an elementary VC1 stream from WMV main profile (not advanced)? Any suggestions on how to get AAC or AC3 audio to work with the WMV? Maybe I could use VirtualDubMOD to convert to avi?

BTW - I'm trying to do this lossless if possible. Last resort would be to convert the audio to 2 channel stereo.

Suggestions?

[poisondeathray]

There was an old thread about 5.1AC3 in wmv, I can't find it right now...

Basically you can convert 5.1 WMA to 5.1 AC3 with behappy or MeGUI's audio component (which is based on behappy)

Then you can can use the Solveig ASF Muxer, there is a free version around; google for "SMMASF_2006_03_02"

Here is a sample of VC1 + 5.1AC3 in .asf / .wmv done in this fashion, it will play on PC software but it may or may not play on hardware players. Note this is wvc1 (advanced profile), but you should be able to do the same thing with wmv3 streams



wvc1%20+%205.1ac3.wmv

[CDIZX3]

Perfect, I'll try that when I get home. (crosses fingers) THANKS!

Hopefully this tricks my media player into actually playing the file.

[Hemie143]

Hi CDIZX3,

This is maybe only a part of the answer you are looking for, but you can have a look here :
http://hemie143.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/wma_ac3_1/

You may also convert the video stream using MeGUI.

[sipper]

Try www.sipper.nl