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windows media player to quicktime
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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I'm sure this has come up before, but is there ANYTHING that can convert from bad (wmv) to good (mpg)? please help.
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Join Date: May 2002
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im wondering if there is a mac solution to this to. there is only one solution i have found for this and that is a program called TSMPEG (i believe)for Windows. its is relatively straight forward and easy to use. ive used it several times and it works. i am not sure if programs like FFMPEG or Mencoder for OS X xan do it since i never was able to figure those darn things out.
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA
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A quick search only seems to pull up Windows software. I can't seem to find anything that will convert the files in OS X....
The windows stuff I found was VideoCharge and AVIConverter if you're interested. Never used either so I don't know about the quality they produce.
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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try playing the wmv in mplayer and VLC.
I know that VLC can dump a stream to your HD in any other format that it supports. Don't remember the commands, but I got it from their website (documentation section) and used it.
If it plays in mplayer, I would guess that mencoder would be able to convert it to another format.
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Join Date: May 2002
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ive heard VLC can dump/save streams, but how the heck do you do it? that would be useful for some of the avi(divx and 3ivx) that quicktime just refuses to play...even with the correct decoders installed. i guess this would be useful for wmv files too. wmv works decent in VLC, but still has along way to go. VLC is the best player out there though hands down.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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ffmpeg can convert asf/wmv with the right codecs (MP4{1,2,3}, WMV1 and some of WMV2), but in my experience the framerates of the resulting file are off by several orders of magnitude (in which direction depends on the version of ffmpeg), which is highly irritating.
VLC's export options can be accessed through the gui using the extended "Open..." dialog, but I've never gotten them to work, at all (neither with the cli). But they have a rather active support forum at videolan.org, and I bet you can get someone to help you with that.
The final (MacOS) option is an old, primitive OS 9 app called ASFConverter. This is a quick and dirty wrapper for the WMP SDK (yes, there apparently was such a thing for OS 9), so it will decode with the bona fide M$ decoder, but I don't think WMP9 runs in Classic so that still doesn't help with WMV3 movies (and incidentally this app never launched for me in Classic, but only in OS 9 proper).
The Windows solutions (not already mentioned) are TMPGEnc and EO-Video (the former has imperfect decoding and the latter is a very buggy program but uses the MS decoder)
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