Converting WMV to VCD

[Namrepus221]

ok how do I convert a WMV to be used on a VCD. I can't get TMPG to do it, even with the rename to .asf trick.

ANy help would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98704&highlight=wmv

If the above link does not help you may be stuck. BUT, I will try to help
as I went through this procedure a little while ago. First, some info
about the file you are trying to convert.

Where did it come from?
How small/large is it?

Any other info about the file you can think of. This link is for a small
but very useful program. Just download it, unzip it to a folder and then
drag your wmv file over the 'movieidw.exe' file. A notepad window
will appear with some more info about the file.

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/movieid.html

I'll await your response. M

[Namrepus221]

Here's what MovieID says about my file


File Name: 95-03-26 Chris Jericho vs Ultimo Dragon.wmv

File Format: Advanced Systems Format (ASF)
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Web Site: www.microsoft.com

Content: Video and Audio
Duration: 8 min 28 sec
Data Rate: 359 kbps (ave)
Video Info: 352 x 240
Audio Info: 22050 Hz, 22.0 kbps, stereo

Video Format: Windows Media Video 8
FourCC: "WMV2"
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Web Site: www.microsoft.com

Audio Format: Windows Media Audio
Format ID: 0x0161
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Web Site: www.microsoft.com

I don't think I can do that thing that you gave a link to because of the file size (I have a 7 GB hard drive and am trying to do good VCD's. Isn't this an exercise in futility?)

Try downloading this:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nomad/virtualdub13c.zip

It is called VirtualDub. This one is version 1.3 which is said to be able to
handle wmv formats. I tried it with the file I was working on but nothing
worked. Not even the Graphedit I showed you earlier. I eventually
just downloaded a dvd rip of the movie. Now I have a nice VCD.

If VDub can't handle it....let me think on it. In the mean time try searching
this site. The search function is at the top of the screen in the Forum Index.

That is where I found most of my info. You might want to try this one also:

http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/

It may be able to fix your wmv so that VDub will work on it.

If you get Vdub to load it with no problems save it as an avi.
Then save the 'wav' from it with 'Full Processing' selected under the
Audio menu. If you get to this point you are in pretty goodluck.

Now you should have two files, the video portion and the audio.
These can be combined in TMPGEnc to make a VCD compliant mpeg.

Goodluck.

P.S. If you can't get Vdub to load it (error about wmv format something)
try installing the Nimo codec package that is located in the 'Tools'
section to the left of this message. This 'MAY' cure some of the VDub
loading problems.
I will be checking back every so often between tonight and Sunday so
be paitent. If you do not get a response right away do some searching.
It helped me ALOT.

Goodluck! M324

P.S.S.

Try this just for kicks. Some people have actually had luck with this.
What type of burning software do you have? If you have Nero or
something like it, let it try to encode for you. Just an idea.

M324

[buzzinhornets]

How to convert ASF/WMV files to AVI.
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OK, first let me say that this method is a bit of a pain in the butt, is not user friendly, and does require that you have the registered version of at least one program. Having said that, this method will allow you to make a flawless( as much as possible ) conversion from an asf/wmv directly to avi even if the file is encoded with the WMV1 or WMV2 codec.

First we'll start with what you'll need.

1)GraphEdit : get it here http://www.dvd-digest.net/downloads/files/encode/graphedit.zip
2)Imedia AVI_renderer : http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mpeg2avi_imedia.html
3)AsfTools : www.geocities.com/myasftools/
4)A video to work with, for this example I'll use the movie trailer of Black Hawk Down. I used StreamBoxVCR and downloaded it from here mms://agency2wm.fplive.net/agency/2/2/film/blackhawkdown/trailer_2/bhd_trailer2_300k.asf
5)Registered version of MotionPerfect : http://www.motionperfect.com/

OR YOU COULD GET THEM AT THIS YAHOO GROUP (and any necessary patches) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buzzinhornetz2002_2/files

First we're going to need to get some essential information from the asf file. Namely, the frame rate and the number of frames in the file. Open your downloaded file in asftools and click on the Advanced button. Click on the "Convert to AVI" tab, make sure timing method is set to Minimum extra frames, and click on Convert. When the conversion is finished, note the "frame rate" which can be read at the field: "Frame/Sec".
and number of frames in asf/wmv file which is: (Total frames shown in message window) minus (number of frames added for sync. also shown in message window)
Our example has 4491 frames and runs at 29.966fps. You can now delete the avi file.

Before we go any further, you will need to have a registered version Motion Perfect installed, and you will need to install the AVI_renderer filter. You should have downloaded a file called i-media_mpeg2avi.zip, in this zip is a file called AVI_Renderer.ax, extract it to the directory of your choice, just rember where you extracted it to. Now click on Start->Run, in the box type in regsvr32 and then the path to AVI_Renderer.ax in quotes. So, if you extracted it to c:\filters, you should type in : regsvr32 "c:\filters\AVI_Renderer.ax" . Click OK and you should get a message that the filter registation succeded.

Now we are ready to build our filter graph and start out conversion. Open GraphEdit, click on File->Render Media File, and select your downloaded asf file ( bhd_trailer2_300k.asf in our example ). Once the file is loaded, you will see the filter graph that GraphEdit created. Delete both the Video Renderer, and Default Directsound Device filters. Next, click on Graph->Insert Filters, when the window comes up, expand the DirectShow Filters category. Add a Mediamend ( you will not see this if you do not have motion perfect installed ) filter and an I-Media AVI Renderer filter. In the dialog that appears choose custom for frame rate. To get a frame rate of 29.966fps set the rate to 29966 and the scale to 1000. Click OK then choose an output file name. Now Right-click on the Mediamend filter and select properties, set playback time to 1, set frame rate to 29.966 and set interpolation mode to 0. Now connect the output of Windows Media Video Decoder to the Mediamend filter. Connect the Mediamend filter to the video input of the AVI_Renderer. Connect the Windows Media Audio Decoder to the Audio input of the AVI_Renderer. Check the Show frames box on the AVI_Renderer window. Finally press the play button on the toolbar. A dialog will appear letting you choose the codec you want to use. Your AVI should now be encoding. Once you see in the AVI_Renderer status box that your video is done encoding close graphedit.

You're done. Yeah. You should now be able to play your new avi file.

Just a couple of final word here: When VirtualDub 2 is released, this will probably all be a mute point in that VirtualDub 2 will be DirectShow based and should therefore be able to open and convert asf/wmv files natively. Also I should point out that there are probably several other methods for doing this with GraphEdit. This is just my method. It works for me.

by CHICKEN SCROTUM
edited by BUZZINHORNETS

[Namrepus221]

I got Nero 5.5.9.0 and it says it's an unsupported file and won't do it.

I've got VirtualDub 1.7.3 (I think) ANd there is something about there being legal matters about it and not downloading previous versions of it cause they were removed or something.

I'm trying that ASF tools thing now. If It doesn't work. I really don't care, but hopefully.

Also I'm having a small problem with TMPG cause of the "Unsupporded file" error thingie. I haven't gotten teh Codec pack yet I'm not really up for ******* around with it.

[Namrepus221]

OK I've gotten the file to an AVI but it's still an WMV2 coded

I dunno how to fix this.

I did find a program from stoix or something that will do it, unfortunatly it won't work.

If anyone at all has info on how to fix this, it would be appreciated.