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DinsdalePiranha
3rd March 2002, 18:39
I've spent a pretty good chunk of time now following bgpop's instructions (http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/wmv2avi.html) for converting WMV to AVI. While I did figure out where to get "WAV Dest" for GraphEdit on my own, no amount of research seems to be revealing anything relevant about the VFAPI codec/software (which is so good that the author has nothing about it on it's "official site (http://www.yks.ne.jp/~hori/index-e.html)")

Anyway, I completed all the steps in the bgpop article up to and including the one where you save a "project" file with TMPGEnc in TPR format. Now I'm stuck trying to open this file in VFAPI. I might have a chance of troubleshooting this if the error wasn't so garbled that the only way I can really convey it is with a screen shot:

http://www.humpin.org/VFAPI-error.jpg

The first thing I found was that according to some post I dredged out of Google (which I can't find now) I was supposed to be using TMPGEnc 12a rather than the latest version I had been using. So I downloaded this earlier version and recreated the TPR file with it. No dice, same result.

So any idea what I should do next?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- Just to clarify, I *did* install the VFAPI codec (well, I assume I did -- the instructions are all in Japanese so I just ran the batch file that was included as it looks like it calls the INI).

zeppage2
4th March 2002, 06:21
My experience is that TMPGEnc itself will convert wmv to avi.

Download the most recent version of TMPGEnc and install.

Load your .wmv file in the video source.
This may take TMPGEnc a few minutes, but it will load.

Go to file> output to file> avi file

The save as dialogue box opens, here you will choose
the video and audio codecs.

Click on the thin line to the far right of the video
and the video compression dialogue box appears. Click on
arrow and your codecs appear. Choose a dv or mjpeg. OK.

Click on the thin line across from the audio and choose
PCM, 44kHz 16 bit or 48kHz 16 bit.

Save the avi file.

Tmpgenc will start and wait until the file has completely
written. It will hesitate at 99%; it is finalizing the avi.


Mark