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On 1 May 2012, at 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So |
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> far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it |
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> doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of |
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> comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit |
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> codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I |
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> might need to set to get that? |
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It's worth telling us *why* you want to do this. It may be better if you can avoid this conversion. |
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.mp4 is a container format and wikipedia tells me that WMV is a codec, but that .wmv files are usually WMV codec wrapped in an ASF container. |
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Since .mp4 video most always means h264 encoding, this means slow and dirty transcoding, which will inherently cause loss of video quality. You want to avoid transcoding if you can. |
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http://html5.xoofoo.org/video.html |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video |
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Stroller. |