Windows Media 9 now AVI compatible

[bond]

well even if you are an ex-programmer and need explicit instruction you should not forget our rules:
:search:

[TCmullet]

@Bond: Sorry, I slipped up this time. Yes, I searched now on "drm"; found a bunch of threads; looked at several (am very short on net-time for this month); and it does look like I can't open this dang file. So....

@Bond & @RadicalEd: There's a semi-daily show I record. On a day with critical plot twist, I was out of town and my timer-capture screwed up. I found out I could download the whole 38min. show for $1.99, but it's this dang .wmv file. I've got to get it readable so I can edit portions to save in my collection which is all mpeg2. Looks like I'll have to fallback on the terrible kludge of playing the stupid thing in wmp9 and point a camcorder to the screen and re-capture it! This is my first exposure to wmp9 and .wmv, and I'm NOT pleased. I don't want to output to ANY format that I can't read back in and edit, which includes ALL other files of the same format. Heck, the show aired on CBS, i.e., anybody can tape it. (Just not from their d___ .wmv file!)

:angry:

I'll appreciate any further comments from you guys. And thank you all for helping me to see the bad news! :)

[bond]

well as you already found out there is no way to play/edit or whatever a drm'ed .wmv file if you dont have the rights to do so

so the best you can do is to write a nice mail to the guys where you bought this file and tell them "what you think about it" ;)

[momentum]

I had thought WMV9 codec is the best one as far as its picture quality. The result I tested on WMVencoder was really great. This time I test on VDM with band of Brothers by using 2 pass encoding as I dont like wmv format.

This time, the result is rather disappointing. I get only poor and blured image much worse than divx5 or xvid.

Again I tested the same movie with 1 pass encoding method, the result is nearly the same as what I get through WMVencoder.

I am totally confused with this resultas my understanding is that 2 pass method always gives us the best result. but its not true.

Could you explain what is the difference between 2 pass and 1 pass in terms of picture quality? I just dont get the whole process and behind technical principles.

Thanks in advance