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Bugsy
14th February 2005, 09:59
I'm trying to convert a small (7 MB) WMV ver 9 videoclip to a format that can be played in a MS ver 7 mediaplayer... (Don't say the upgrade is free, cos I'm not permitted to upgrade (not admin).)
I know DivX 3 files can be played, but how do I set up the conversion...
I tried loading the clip with Avisynth and encode to MPEG-1 (QuEnc) but the file grows to more than 20 MB and crap quality.
Tried Stoik 2.1, but no WMV7 support...

WMV 360*288 25fps 346kbps 16bit/32000Hz sound

What settings do I use to preserve the best possible quality for DivX3? Alt. how do I convert to WMV 7?
Max filesize 10 MB (5 MB is better...).

Thanx

Bugsy

Bugsy
16th February 2005, 08:58
No other reply, so I had to fix it myself...

Downloaded Xvid (Koepi) and loaded the .WMV to VirtualDubMod thru Avisynt (DirectShowSource and ConvertToyv12).
First I had to fix the Audio, Stream List - Full processing mode - Compression - MP3 32kBits/s, 16kHz, mono

Next the video, loaded the .AVS - Filter: Sharpen 5% - Full processing mode - Xvid 1 pass CBR 340 Kbps - FourCC used: DIVX

This produces a DivX file that was accepted by the Mediaplayer, and almost the same size and quality as the WMV9 file! :)

The clue was FourCC used: DIVX. This made the file into an acceptable format (XviD was not accepted). Case closed!

Bugsy