Re-Encoding .VC1 to .H264 possible ?

[LOGiC]

Dear all,

I am quite new to this forum and I would like to find out, if there is a way to re-encode .vc1 files to .h264 without losing a lot of quality ? If this is possible, could you all please give me a hint how I could do it ?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards

LOGIC

[mmace]

I'm wanting to know this too.
I have 2 VC-1 films with 5.1 audio that I'm wanting to convert to h.264 (mp4 container) or MPEG2 so I can burn to a BDMV disc, but I have no experience of AVIsynth or the graph program (can't remember what it's called)

[bond]

moved to alt video as its propably more of a vc1 issue than an h264 one

[akupenguin]

No, there's no special relationship between VC1 and H.264 that would allow transcoding without quality loss. The best you can do is decode the VC1 and encode it to H.264, just like any other video source.

[mmace]

any idea how to do that please?

[bond]

directshowsource in avisynth and feeding the resulting avs to x264.exe

[mmace]

cheers bond, but like I said, I have no experience of AVISynth

this may help the OP, I just loaded a 1080p WMV-HD VC1 file into Pro Coder and it accepted it and I converted it to MPEG2 without problems

[Dark Shikari]

Its not hard, just make a script like

DirectShowSource("filename")
ConvertToYV12()

and use x264 on that file.

[mmace]

Its not hard, just make a script like

DirectShowSource("filename")
ConvertToYV12()

and use x264 on that file.it is hard if you don't understand any of what you've written!

cheers though

[survivant]

use megui to do that or automkv