AVC to VC-1

[StHapns247]

I have a large collection of mkv movies that I am looking to convert to Windows Media videos for easy compatibility with my Xbox. All the mkvs have AVC video tracks and of course WMV uses VC-1 as a video encoder. Every time I convert one the video track will not play in Windows Media Player, only the audio track.

I have tried a few programs to convert the video and the only one that does not give me an error when trying to convert an mkv is DVDFab Video Converter which completes the process without any errors.

I have checked the video file with MediaInfo and it properly converts it to the a VC-1 file with the correct bitrate and looks comparable to a wmv file that plays just fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions that may solve my problem? I am concerned that I may have to trash my whole media library.

[Atak_Snajpera]

how did you create your mkv collection?

[StHapns247]

how did you create your mkv collection?

I used Ripbot264.

[Guest]

Post a link to a WMV file that does not play. You don't have to do a full movie, cut it down to manageable size.

[benwaggoner]

I'd recommend use Expression Encoder with Haali Media Splitter. That should crack a mkv and has built-in decoding for AVC and most audio codecs you'd like to use.

And it also has a faster, higher quality WMV encoder than most free tools, and handles 5.1 audio well.

[StHapns247]

I'd recommend use Expression Encoder with Haali Media Splitter. That should crack a mkv and has built-in decoding for AVC and most audio codecs you'd like to use.

And it also has a faster, higher quality WMV encoder than most free tools, and handles 5.1 audio well.

This worked amazingly! I never knew MS had such a full featured design suite.

I have one question:

Is it possible to make a queue of videos to encode? I don't see any obvious option to do this and every time I import a new video it appears to just replace the previous one.

Thanks for all the help!

[Guest]

I'd recommend use Expression Encoder with Haali Media Splitter. That should crack a mkv and has built-in decoding for AVC and most audio codecs you'd like to use.

And it also has a faster, higher quality WMV encoder than most free tools, and handles 5.1 audio well. I just ran it on an unproblematic Avisynth script and it crashed at the end of the encode. What's up with that?

[smok3]

I just ran it on an unproblematic Avisynth script and it crashed at the end of the encode. What's up with that?

I tested the suite about 3 times in the past and it was crashy every time (even tested different machines and os'es), so nothing new.

[Guest]

At least for me it did create the output file before crashing.

[shon3i]

Maybe you guys can use Avisynth virtual file system and feed EE with AVI? That does trick to me for Cinevision where avs input been crashed.

[StHapns247]

I'd recommend use Expression Encoder with Haali Media Splitter. That should crack a mkv and has built-in decoding for AVC and most audio codecs you'd like to use.

And it also has a faster, higher quality WMV encoder than most free tools, and handles 5.1 audio well.

I was wondering if you have any tips to deal with subtitles. Is there any codecs or anything I can install to have Media Encoder detect these? As it stands it looks like I will have to identify these myself and manually convert them into a format the Media Encoder accepts.

Typically I only worry about forced subtitles unless it is a foreign language film. With the later, manually using SupRip would be an all day affair.

[benwaggoner]

I was wondering if you have any tips to deal with subtitles. Is there any codecs or anything I can install to have Media Encoder detect these? As it stands it looks like I will have to identify these myself and manually convert them into a format the Media Encoder accepts.

Typically I only worry about forced subtitles unless it is a foreign language film. With the later, manually using SupRip would be an all day affair.
Yes, you can do awesome things with subtitles.

But at this point we're well away from talking about H.264 and, I think it's best to open a new thread over here:
http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=54.