WMV format?

[Jeff D]

I've got a little video player for the kids that uses WM10 to convert and transfer files to the player. I want to be able to skip the whole transcode part of the process and just copy the file I create.

The problem is I don't know much about the settings that the player can handle. The things I've tried always result in unable to play message.
i've got some of the files the WM10 has convereted, but I can't figuer out the exact settings for the video.

I'm using WMNicEnc to do the my encoding with the settings that I can best guess, but it's not working. I'm wondering if there's any way to either extract the profile or specific settings for the video encoder.

Is there a tool that can extract the specific WM9 video settings?

Or is there a way to extract the settings the player is looking for from media player?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Have you read the player's documentation? You can usually find the technical specs toward the back of the booklet...

[Jeff D]

yah, tried that nothing there. It's the memorex spongebob "fusion media players". There's nothing in the docs, and I tried settings for some of the other memorex products, but that didn't work. I've called them too, but no surprise they didn't know and were suppose to get back to me but nothing.

I've got a sample that works, but I can't find anything to tell me what the format is.

[setarip_old]

I've got a sample that works, but I can't find anything to tell me what the format is.You might try loading it into GSpot...

[Jeff D]

Thanks,

I had tried that too. But on your suggestion I tried again, this time downloading 2.7 instead of the 2.5 I had been using.

It did give some light, but not much. THe only thing I can see as a difference is the following under :

Playable :

user data/meta data:
Vid:DeviceConformanceTemplate:SP
Aud:WM/WMADRCPeakReference:3609
Aud:WM/WMADRCAverageReference:901


---------------


UnPlayable :

user data/meta data:
Vid:DeviceConformanceTemplate:MP@LL
Aud:WM/WMADRCPeakReference:3696
Aud:WM/WMADRCAverageReference:1002



Now I haven't found any way to select the profile in nic's encoder, but I'll look if I can get WMEncoder to make the same profiled player. Everything else I fell fairly confident on.

Vid Max bitrate of 500kbps, 320x240, 15fps
Aud 44K 16b stereo at 128kbp CBR

Any suggestions on where in gSpot I could find more information? I've never dug around in a WM file before, so all this WM stuff is new to me.

[benwaggoner]

There's a couple of other handy products for analysis.

The free WMSnoop:
http://www.sliq.com/?wmsnoop

The awesome (but commercial) Semaphore:
http://www.inlethd.com/encoding/19/17/Semaphore/

WMSnoop will at least give you codecs, ABR/PBR and other basic settings.

[Jeff D]

Thanks Ben, those tools look interesting.

I did have some success, I was able to configure WME to use the simple profile and that with the other settings I had already figured out works for using WME.

But, I'm not able to get Nic's WMEnc to allow me to select a simple profile, or the other needed settings. Is there any way to create a configuration that I can find.

I'm needing the AVS stuff because i'm making stuff for the kids from various sources...

Thanks for any more help/advice!