Re: THE EASIEST WAY TO CONVERT FROM WMV TO AVI

: OK EVERYONE HERE'S THE SIMPLEST WAY TO CONVERT WMV TO AVI. AS I MENTIONED IN A PREIVIOUS POST THE EASIEST WAY TO DO THIS IS USING TMPG AND VIRTUAL DUB. UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO FUCKING MICROSOFT, THE WMV CODEC HAS A LOCK IN IT SO THAT IT CAN NO LONGER OPEN UP UNDER VIRTUAL DUB OR MOST OTHER VIDEO EDITING/PLAYING APPLICATIONS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYERTOOLS/PLAYER AND A FEW OTHERS. TMPG IS ONE SUCH APPLICATION THAT WILL OPEN AND CONVERT WMV FILES, HOWEVER IT HAS TROUBLE READING WMA(WINDOW'S MEDIA AUDIO) FILES AND GENERALLY WHEN CONVERTED THEY END UP AS CHOPPY SOUNDING OR MESSED UP MPA(MEDIA PLAYER AUDIO) FILES. SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO CONVERT WMA TO A WAV FILE SO THAT WE CAN DUB IT TO THE VIDEO WE CREATE UNDER TMPG? WELL THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO DO THIS ONE IS USING GRAPHEDIT WHICH IS A SOMEWHAT COMPLICATED CODEC CONVERSION PROGRAM, HOWEVER, THE EASY WAY TO CONVERT WMA OR WMV TO A WAV FILE IS BY DOWNLOADING A NEAT LITTLE PROGRAM ENTITLED "WMA2WAV". I'M NOT SURE WHAT WEB SITE TO GET THIS FROM, HOWEVER YOU ALL CAN JUST GO TO ANY SEARCH ENGINE AND TYPE THIS IN "WMA2WAV" AND I'M SURE THE SITE THAT HAS THIS APPLICATION WILL COME UP. SINCE WMV FILES CONSIST OF WMA, YOU CAN USE EITHER A WMV OR A WMA FILE FOR THE CONVERSION.

: WHEN YOU FIND AND DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM, MAKE SURE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD THE "GUI" THAT GOES WITH IT. THIS IS A LOT EASIER FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE DOS COMMANDS VERY WELL. (IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE DOS THEN JUST FOLLOW THE STEPS IN THE README FILE THAT COMES ALONG WITH THE PROGRAM, OTHERWISE CONTINUE READING MY INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE GUI(GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE)

: (BEFORE YOU START CONVERTING MAKE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL WMV FILE YOU WANT TO CONVERT)

: AFTER YOU FIND AND DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM, RUN THE EXECTUABLE. A DIALOGUE BOX WILL APPEAR ASKING YOU TO BROWSE TO THE FILE WMV/WMA FILE YOU WANT TO CONVERT. SELECT THE FILE IT IS YOU WANT TO CONVERT AND THE DIRECTORY YOU WANT TO SAVE IT TO AND THEN CLICK OKAY ON THE GUI DIALOGUE BOX.

: THE CONVERSION TIME DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE FILE BUT GENERALLY IT WILL CONVERT WMV FILES TO WAV FILES PRETTY QUICKLY. (I CONVERTED A 200 MEG WMV FILE TO A 40 MEG WAV IN ABOUT 5 MINUTES) THERE IS NO STATUS BAR THAT APPEARS WHEN RUNNING THE APPLICATION SO YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A "DONE" DIALOGUE BOX TO POP UP TO TELL WHEN THE APPLICATION IS DONE CONVERTING. ANYWAY, AFTER YOU CONVERT THE WMV TO WAV. BROWSE TO AND OPEN THE COPIED WMV FILE ON THE VIDEO TAB IN TMPG.

: NOTE*(FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR ON HOW TO USE TMPG GO TO VCDHELPER.COM FOR HELP ON HOW TO USE THIS APPLICATION)

: NEXT BROWSE TO AND OPEN UP THE NEWLY CONVERTED WAV FILE IN TMPG UNDER THE AUDIO TAB.(YOU SHOULD PROBABLY TEST THE CONVERTED WAV AUDIO IN A MEDIA PLAYER BEFORE DOING THIS, PERSONALLY, I HAVE HAD A 100% SUCCESS RATE IN WMV/WMA TO WAV CONVERSION WHEN USING WMA2WAV APPLICATION)

: FINALLY ADJUST TO THE MPEG SETTINGS YOU WANT AND JUST HIT TMPG'S START BUTTON LIKE YOU NORMALLY WOULD TO CONVERT ANY OTHER MEDIA FILE TO MPG AND THAT'S IT.

: AFTER YOUR DONE CONVERTING TO MPG JUST USE VIRTUAL DUB TO CONVERT THE MPG TO AVI.(FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE VIRTUAL DUB JUST GO TO VCDHELPER.COM FOR AN EXPLANATION)

: YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE A PROBLEM OPENING UP THE FILE UNDER VIRTUAL DUB ANY MORE SINCE THE FILE IS NOW USING AN MPG VIDEO CODEC AND A MPA AUDIO CODEC. FIND THE AVI CODEC YOU WANT TO USE IN VIRTUAL DUB AND COMPRESS AWAY.

: NOTE* THERE IS ONE OTHER WAY TO DO THIS BUT IT IS A REAL PAIN IN THE ASS. IF YOU KNOW DOS YOU CAN USE A PROGRAM CALLED DIGTV THAT HAS ABOUT A 75% SUCCESS RATE, HOWEVER YOU GENERALLY COME OUT WITH REALLY CRAPPY LOOKING AVI'S. TO DOWNLOAD THAT PROGRAM GO TO www.digtv.ws. YOU CAN EMAIL THE CREATOR OF THIS PROGRAM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

: NOTE* IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE OPENING THE WMV VIDEO FILES UNDER TMPG CHANGE THE EXTENSION TO ASF. IF YOU STILL HAVE TROUBLE OPENING THE FILE UNDER TMPG THEN DOWNLOAD "ASFTOOLS" WHICH IS A GREAT ASF FIXER PROGRAM. LINKS TO DOWNLOAD THIS APPLICATION CAN BE FOUND AT VCDHELPER.COM.
: YOU CAN USE

: EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANYMORE QUESTIONS AT YOURNUMBER1BADBOY@YAHOO.COM.