Best way to cut out parts of a .WMV video

[buick]

I do a lot of screen capture and play them thru my media player in the house, but would like to cut sections out and save with out re encoding them and would prefer freeware if it is available. These can be pretty long videos and I have some software that will do it the long way cutting everything around it out and wants to re encode which I don't want to do. Thanks for any help

[KarMa]

I wouldn't suggest doing captures with .WMV, as the tool support is limited. I'd encode using x264/XviD/MJPEG/lossless(Lagarith/Huff/FFV1/...) What program are you screen capturing with?

The best free program I can suggest is AsfBin, which can accept most .ASF or .WMV files and cut them up. It seems to save cut .WMV files as .ASF but I just change the file extension back to .WMV and it seems to work fine.

[buick]

Im using Replay Video Capture, it has always worked good for me other than file size can be a bit big since most everything I capture is slow movement. My device I use for all my playing is a med800x3d which play most everything but there
has been a few not play but most have if there standard format
Thanks for the help

I wouldn't suggest doing captures with .WMV, as the tool support is limited. I'd encode using x264/XviD/MJPEG/lossless(Lagarith/Huff/FFV1/...) What program are you screen capturing with?

The best free program I can suggest is AsfBin, which can accept most .ASF or .WMV files and cut them up. It seems to save cut .WMV files as .ASF but I just change the file extension back to .WMV and it seems to work fine.

[usually_quiet]

I looked at the description for Machete, which says it can cut WMV files on keyframes (I-frames). That would be lossless, but it wouldn't be possible to cut anywhere that the user would like. The program moves cuts to the nearest keyframe if the user doesn't place the cut on a keyframe himself.

The description for SolveigMM Video Splitter says it can edit WMV files. This program smart encodes (only re-encodes partial GOPs adjacent to the cuts) for some types of video, but cuts other types of on keyframes/I-frames. I'm not sure which it does for WMV.

These are not free but have free demo versions to try to find out if they are worth paying for.