WMV -> AVI (or something for VCDs) -- HELP!!!

[rtetzloff]

Hello...

This might be interesting for someone, but I am kind of stressed out over this mess Microsoft has made...

A friend of mine created a full length movie using Windows Movie Maker... In actualiy, it is just a movie consisting of stick people that he created in Paint and moved around in Photoshop...

So, there a four files:

1. a 1:11 teaser trailer
2. a 1:48 teaser trailer
3. a 2:11 full trailer
4. the 54:30 movie

All of these are in the WMV format. I am trying to convert these to AVI so I can put them on VCDs using nero.

One program I tried, called Stoik Video Converter, converted the 3 trailers into acceptable, but not great quality AVI files. When I tried to do the movie with Stoik, it stopped after 5:50 of movie time.

Wanting the entire movie on the VCD, I then tried using GraphEdit, with the directions here at VCDHelp.com. I was very pleased with the speed it took to convert, but when I viewed the file, it was 7:31 long! The audio played at normal speed, but the video was incredibly slow.

If anyone has any idea why this happened, or a possible solution, please reply!

Thanks a lot, in advance...

[kitty]

Depending on the codecs used some WMVs won't convert with "standard" methods. Download the Windows Media Encoder from the MS site. You can chose to convert one type of WMV to another which is what I have done - choose Convert then Convert then select filenames then Play Direct on Computer then a custom profile - convert from the format its in to Windows Media MPEG-4 Video V3. That is a format that will convert in other tools. Reencode & you're set.