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Spenceboy98


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Posted: 18 Apr 2012 10:59:20 pm    Post subject: Can someone convert a MOV file to a WMV for me?

Can someone convert a MOV file to a WMV for me? I would do it, but I can't do it on this computer and I can't install a converter because I don't have administrative privileges. Link to Mediafire:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9tpisfpw8wnin8d
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:06:04 pm    Post subject:

ffmpeg.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:06:29 pm    Post subject:

Is .ASF fine? (WMV+WMA)
Anything that accepts .WMV should accept this kind of .ASF

http://whff.frogbox.es/download.php?file=405r5mi7dk
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:09:56 pm    Post subject:

iirc, use ffmpeg -i input.mov -acodec wmav2 -b 800000 -o output.wmv
Off of the top of my head from when I last converted to wmv. -b may be wrong, though, but the bitrate must be high.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2012 11:13:33 pm    Post subject:

Thank you! I'm using it to make another one of my lip sync videos.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 12:38:42 am    Post subject:

Super Video Converter is an easy-to-use frontend for ffmpeg and a bunch of other converters, but it might require administrative privledges, I'm not actually sure. It does do everything I ever need it to without having to go through a command line, and it includes all the converters in it's package so I can quickly install it anywhere I need to manipulate video(like at church when doing the VBS presentation, for example).
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:18:40 am    Post subject:

Out of curiosity, what reason could you possibly have for wanting to produce a .wmv in this day and age?
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:24:36 am    Post subject:

I was using it to make a video of me lip syncing to a medley I made out of my favorite songs.

Here it is:

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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:27:39 am    Post subject:

Spenceboy98 wrote:
I was using it to make a video of me lip syncing to a medley I made out of my favorite songs.

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKY2OXp7gM


Which is on youtube, in a Flash-format. I still don't know why you want to produce a wmv file. It's an awful format, and nobody uses it for anything. If you must convert it instead of uploading straight to youtube, make an avi, or mkv.


Do you have a Zune or something?
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:32:27 am    Post subject:

That, or he was using Windows Movie Maker, unless it's gotten significantly better.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:37:06 am    Post subject:

comicIDIOT wrote:
That, or he was using Windows Movie Maker, unless it's gotten significantly better.


Oh, good lord. If that is the case, my condolences. Carry on.

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wait, hasn't WMM supported avi since at least XP? I ask because that was the last time I used it, and I definitely had avi footage.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:56:51 am    Post subject:

Looks like it's been having issues with/hasn't supported AVI before 2007.
http://www.moviecodec.com/video-codecs/avi-codecs-for-windows-movie-maker-32927/
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:21:53 am    Post subject:

If I may chime in, I use Windows Movie Maker for most of my project videos that I upload to YouTube, and it works fine with AVI. If does NOT work with Apple's dumb MOV format, though. Wink
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:40:12 pm    Post subject:

Yeah, I was using Windows Live Movie Maker, and I guess it doesn't support MOV files.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:58:14 pm    Post subject:

KermMartian wrote:
If I may chime in, I use Windows Movie Maker for most of my project videos that I upload to YouTube, and it works fine with AVI. If does NOT work with Apple's AWESOME MOV format, though. Wink


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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:03:46 pm    Post subject:

Aes_Sedia5 wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
If I may chime in, I use Windows Movie Maker for most of my project videos that I upload to YouTube, and it works fine with AVI. If does NOT work with Apple's AWESOME MOV format, though. Wink


Fixed. Razz


I've found both MOV and WMV to be equally flawed. Both formats look great when something is recorded in them natively, but look terrible when something else is converted to them. Frankly, I've found Xvid AVI is the best way to go.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:06:41 pm    Post subject:

I find anything windows sucks, and is flawed naturally. So anything WM* Is out for me. I honestly never "Converted " To MOV so I would not know, i DO know that when exporting to MOV, it looks amazing.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:05:40 pm    Post subject:

A lot of it is down to the encoder you're using, though transcoding usually imposes a fairly significant quality hit. WinFF is a relatively idiot-proof GUI around FFmpeg.

elfprince13 wrote:
It's an awful format, and nobody uses it for anything.

Are you referring to the container (ASF) or the codec (VC-1)? ASF does the job (it's certainly an improvement over AVI), and VC-1 is widely used (in Blu-ray, for example).
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:05:51 pm    Post subject:

MP4 FTW.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:40:50 pm    Post subject:

comicIDIOT wrote:
MP4 FTW.


I've had mixed results with MP4s. They certainly save a lot of space, which is great for portable devices like my PSP or Wii memory card, but at the same time their quality doesn't hold a candle to Xvid/DivX AVI(which are admittedly a good bit larger)
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