[christopher ek]

Whats the easiest way to convert a Qt 5 file to Windows Media Player 8 format?

anybody has a clue what software to use?
i'm on a mac

thanks

/christopher ek

I'd say Media Cleaner is about the only way if you're on a Mac. I think PC has some MS app to do this, since they want everything in that format.

[tkmd]

just as a side question, is there any app that will convert WMP files to quicktime ???

[Millennium]

Originally posted by tkmd:
<STRONG>just as a side question, is there any app that will convert WMP files to quicktime ???</STRONG>

Sadly, not really. The WiMP formats aren't meant to be gotten out of. Yet another Microsoft attempt to lock people into its stuff.

[lucylawless]

I've tried using Cleaner to encode real media, and it took forever, and the resulting file had terrible compression, and it was only about 5 minutes of the original 20 minute clip, and the sound was out of sync. I didn't do any further tweaking.

what you really want to do to convert to or from Windows Media, is to get VirtualPC and VirualDub (go to the bottom to find the old/altered versions that support importing windows media formats).


<font color = red>edit:</font> now that I think about it, I don't think virtualDub can export to asf or wmv. It can encode the video and audio, but I think the final product will be in an avi wrapper (which I consider to be the optimal solution anyway). But Microsoft offers a free asf encoder so you might as well use that.

[ 01-18-2002: Message edited by: lucylawless ]