Wmv2avi

[clausen]

I'm running Me and use a lot of MovieMaker, putting avi-clips together, mixing them with sound and converting them to WMV files. Isn't there a program which can turn a wmv back to avi again. Couldn't find one at Doom9.
Would be glad for some help. I'm quite new in encoding. I use the Morgan's MPEG encoder for Corel Paint to handle avi-files.
Thanks in advance!
Claus.

[Gin_Quaker]

ok here is not realy a solution but a warning:
Ok first you have .avi files (which i beleave are compressed, therefor there is a loss in quality). Then you convert the .avi files to .WMV creating even more of a loss in quality. THEN you want to convery the .WMV back to .avi? are you crazy? That would produce so terable results!!!! (well maybe not tooo bad but still theres a huge loos in quality there.)

Solution: If your going to mix video files and audio, you should proboly use a avi-avi file program. Virtual dub is good as it can do a direct stream copy meaning no loss in quality. I realy can talk about any other video editing software as i have never used them....

Hope this is some help....

[movmasty]

TMPG can do this job, also with audio
if audio cant be done with tmpg, use grapheditor

[rmatei]

Try getting your hands on the last Virtualdub version with ASF support (1.4c?). I think I recall it opens WMV too...

[clausen]

Thanks rmatei!
Will try that now.
I just expierienced with MPEG-Mediator, but the audio stream doesn't fit to the video.

[movmasty]

no Matei, vdub 1.4c-asf doesnt open wmv
would be cool if was able to do that,since is more friendly than tmpg,
maybe someone could do the job?

@clausen
if you convert wmv with tmpg, you have to give a framerate for conversion
then open the wmv with mediaplayer 6.4
go in wiew/statistic, and look there.
you have to put the framerate in the mpg settings.
then go in file/output as
there u can output like avi

[clausen]

Thanks movemasty, but that won't work with the audios. I',ve tried all possible codecs, but QuickTime or CorelPaint still won't read the AVIs.
I guess I have to extract the audio first and save as a WAV file and handle the video in CorelPaint and at last mix video and audio together again in MovieMaker.

[movmasty]

QuickTime , CorelPaint,MovieMaker...?
unusual sw here.....
give a look in download section, download almost all :cool:
I guess I have to extract the audio first and save as a WAV file and handle the video in CorelPaint and at last mix video and audio together again in MovieMaker
but if the wav is working,should work also the avi with audio....


MovieMaker?, well, if you dont want to download all, take at least VirtualDub...