remux VC-1 to wmv9

[Rollins]

Hi everyone,

here an question form an abolute Noob but i hope you can help me.

Since 6 months i am the lucky owner of a mediaplayer namely the Mediagate MG450-HD ( http://www.airlinktek.com/english/product.php?prod=mg450hd ). And i have to admit it's your moneys worth and it does the job just fine . Plays vob files, divx, xvid, avi even iso movies are no problem at all. EXCEPT HD is a problem.

The mediaplayer does not play mkv containers. But it will play wmvhd files and i was blown away off the quality after viewing an sample file from Ms like Coral_Reef_Adventure_720.wmv.
After that experience i was sure, i just had to play HD content.

as you can see only the wmv9 codec is supported (http://www.airlinktek.com/english/atboard_view.php?class1=cs&class2=faq&page=1&notice=y&kind=&uid=2361).
after reading through all the forums here and at Airlinktek and trying all the programs to recode an mkv to wmv i finaly gave up, it just takes too long to recode a 16gb mkv to wmv.
unfortunately all other wmv_hd i came accross come with the VC-1 codec which isn't compatible with my mediaplayer.

And that is where my question is about .

Is there a way to (re)mux a wmv container with a VC-1 codec to a wmv3 (wmv9) codec .If i'm not mistaken muxing will be much faster than encoding !
i also found in this forum that 9 out off 10 times changing the FourCC code from vc-1 tot wmv3 will work just fine but i can't find a prog to do this with (The FourCC changer will only accept avi's and no wmv as source file)

thnx in advance

:thanks:

with kind regards

Rollins

[poisondeathray]

You can use a custom fourcc with SolveigMM ASF Multiplexer (there is a free version if you search around), but it won't work for playback. And if it won't play on the PC there is no way it will play on a media player. My understanding is that WVC1 and WMV3 are too different., you have to re-encode or get a better media player (HTPC or TVIX, some TVIX players support .mkv)

[Ranguvar]

Muxing is changing the container of the video. However, you already are using the ASF container (.wmv). You need to change the codec, therefore you must re-encode.