Windows Media Video (WMV9) VCM in beta

[celtic_druid]

There are win32 builds of GIMP.

[outlyer]

Originally posted by Sirber
and for linux? I prefer the complicated Windows :DUhmmm. It's available for Win (http://www.gimp.org/win32/) and for Linux (http://www.gimp.org/download.html).

EDIT:
oops, I didn't saw celtic_druid's post before replying...

[thop]

*BUMP (uninstall)

[Sirber]

Originally posted by Didée
You can also do 1024x768 @ 200 kbps ... will look just the same to you, until you have consulted an optician.

:tired:

Is that humour?

[marnum]

Guess it was supposed so...

Can anyone please tell me the optimum settings for the max. bitrate? With RealVideo you have to take avg. bitrate * 2,1. Is there also a formula for WMV9?

[bond]

any chance to ever see wmv9 vcm working on a non winxp/2000 system?

[mingcl]

We are investigating the possibility now and there is a good chance that we will support a few more OS's.

Thanks,

Ming
Microsoft

[bond]

Would be great :)

[Sirber]

Originally posted by mingcl
We are investigating the possibility now and there is a good chance that we will support a few more OS's.

Thanks,

Ming
Microsoft

Do you mean MacOS and Linux?

[slavickas]

Originally posted by Sirber
Do you mean MacOS and Linux?

no, probably Xenix :p :D ;)

[mingcl]

Sorry for the confusion. I really meant the downlevel OS's such as WinME, NT4, and Win98SE.

Ming
Microsoft

[phrentec]

is the windows media 9 screen codec going to be included in the vcm anytime soon? also how would one increase the brightness while playing a WMV9-VCM encoded video in mediaplayerclassic?

[Ramirez]

Regardless contents you're playing in mpc you can adjust default brightness/contrast levels in overlay control panel.

.P.S
I would really like to know why mingcl have decided to announce about final release of WMV9 vcm codec in AVI & DVD Players (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57114) section of this forum, I mean what's wrong with this tread?.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I have to agree with Ramirez.

I would really like to know why mingcl have decided to announce about final release of WMV9 vcm codec in AVI & DVD Players section of this forum, I mean what's wrong with this tread?.

I would like to think that some of us here on the forum have played a small part contributing to the final release of WMV9 VCM.

It would have been rewarding to have had, even a link made on this section of the forum.

With that said, I have made a few encodes with the final release of the codec and as yet have found no improvements over the beta release (apart from now being able to function with Win98/ME OS's). However, it's still my favourite low bitrate codec.

Cheers

[phrentec]

Originally posted by Ramirez
Regardless contents you're playing in mpc you can adjust default brightness/contrast levels in overlay control panel.


how do i get to the overlay control panel? do i have to install/register something or enable it somehow? thanks.

[h9903209]

Originally posted by Ramirez
"Regardless contents you're playing in mpc you can adjust default brightness/contrast levels in overlay control panel."


Can you please tell me how where the overlay control panel is? I cannot find it in MPC...?

[Ramirez]

You can find these settings in your video card driver settings, depending on your card it might look differently,
in my case (Detonator drivers) it's located in Display Properties>Advanced>Geforce>Overlay Control
It's should be easy to locate these settings for ATI cards owners also.

[phrentec]

i meant if there was a way to change it from within the player like if you encode using divx5 and playback with the divx5 decoding filter it has an option to change to the brightness and contrast.

[h9903209]

thx, I understand now, but this is very troublesome...

I know one player has this convenient function, called Crystal Player, which can adjust brightness/contrast/saturation within player by just pressing some hotkeys.

I really hope MPC has this function too.

[Sagittaire]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57687

1)RV9 EHQ
2)WMV9 or DivX Kauehi
3)XviD

Sorry for XviD fan ... ;-)

[wing1]

use ffdshow -> Codec [x]raw video [x]overlay => you have all kind of controls at your finger tip in WMP64 for WMV9.

[h9903209]

Originally posted by wing1
use ffdshow -> Codec [x]raw video [x]overlay => you have all kind of controls at your finger tip in WMP64 for WMV9.

seems not working... don't know why... I have ticked use overlay mixer and overlay, but it still does not allow me to change the brightness/contrast, etc.

But the method of using geforce display driver to change does work.

[phrentec]

wing1, thanks it works! i didn't realize ffdshow had that feature. but still WM9-VCM should include it's own adjustable brightness decompressor settings.

[DarkFoon]

I use the WM 9 VCM in virtualdub on winME just fine with no problems.

slightly OT:
I have two WM9 files (a wma, and a wmv) that are wrapped in the aforementioned containers, and I can't seem to find any software that allows me to multiplex the video from the wmv and the audio from the wma, without needing to recompress.
Originally, the audio in the wma was supposed to be encoded with the video, but for some reason WME9 on my XP box doesn't like to encode the audio with the video (though it is supposed to) :angry:
I've wated 16 hours recompressing the video hoping that it would finally remember the audio, but no, it always forgets the audio (or it encodes X-number seconds of it and then stops)

[vsv]

For mux wma with wmv you need Windows Media Stream Editor (installed with WMencoder)

[DarkFoon]

i tried the stream editor first, but it won't let me put the two together.
perhaps I used it wrong? It put both files into seperate audiences and wouldn't allow me to put them together in the same audience.
looks like I'll have to re-encode again as video-only and audio-only...
thanks for the help

[DarkFoon]

nevermind, I muxed it with the stream editor. (took me awhile to get the hang of it)
thanks again.