wmv converter?

[Jean]

My WD media player won't play a couple .wmv files and I want to quickly convert them to .avi for example. Can someone recommend a good (possibly even freeware) converter?

So far I've tried handbrake and FormatFactory, first one is buggy as hell, second one is sloooooow.

[Be30mer]

http://www.zamzar.com/ just upload the files here. This is a pretty awesome site, and I think that it converts that type. Give it a try.

[Jean]

Seems like a waste of time to upload a big file, wait for the online conversion and then having to download it?

I need a stand alone app, not an online version. Thanks though!

[dave87325is]

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

its called SUPER. (SUPER © v2010.build.37)

i use this all the freakin time. works great.

do not download the avs one...

[Jean]

Thank you! What a horrible site to go through though lol

[Atreus]

+9 on SUPER, been using it for years.

[dave87325is]

Thank you! What a horrible site to go through though lol

hahaha yup!!! so many things to go through just to download! hope you like it.

[Jean]

For some reason it converts only about 20-40% and stops w/o any errors?

[dave87325is]

jean.. thats a bit weird. post up a screen shot of your super settings.

[Jean]

Trying to convert a batch of 200mb .wmv files, they play fine on the same pc.

I've tired using FFmpeg and MEncoder option with or w/o "DirectShow Decode" option checked. Tried Stream Copy for both Video and Audio.. Output is set to AVI / Xvid / mp3.

Runs through it's process and "finishes" at 26.278 MB out of 191mb file.

Tried also using AVI / DivX / mp3.... VideoScaleSize set to NoChange, 23.976fps...runs and "finishes" at "6,028,286"

What settings are you guys using?

[dave87325is]

jean..

my settings depend on which file im trying to convert. um, id post up my screen shot but i gotta leave work early today.

if it still doesnt work out for you then upload one of your file to rapidshare then send me the link to download it then i will play with the settings.

[nando]

have you tried windows movie maker? I'm pretty sure it can do divix/xvid if you have the codecs installed, and obviously WMV is it's native format. If you have windows 7 it has to be downloaded seperately but it should come with XP.

[Jean]

I have, I am on XP and it's version of Movie Maker can only save to WMV unless you select "DV-AVI (NTSC)" setting...

[ikkitousen]

Is it just for watching? If it is then:
Fuck converters. No. Really.

VLC media player with CCCP
FTMFW!!!
If it's for post-editing, well cant help you there.

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DAMN PLAYS IT ALL!!!

[nando]

personally I like MPC a bit better than VLC, it's quite a bit cleaner/simpler, but I have both for the rare case that MPC doesn't work.

Pretty sure I had WMM ouputting to a divix file before.. but I may have used Nero to convert it?

are you using a standalone hardware player or something? I have a great DVD player that does divix files, but these days I mostly download MKVs.