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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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. |
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Hi Stroller, |
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I subscribed to a trading service that provides 6 1/2 hour videos |
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of the day's market action with audio commentary for each trading day |
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of the week. I like this trader who does the commentary so after the |
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market closes I'd like to review what he thought about the day's |
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action. These files are available only in wmv format. They play fine |
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inside of a Windows VM using Windows Media Player on my Gentoo box but |
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I'd prefer to be able to review them in Linux using xine or some other |
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app. |
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The quality of the video and audio isn't real high to begin with. 6 |
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1/2 hours and they only run about 50MB each. I don't think converting |
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to mp4 would cause me much concern. Additionally if they are mp4 I |
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could watch them on my Kindle Fire. |
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So far I've been unsuccessful with the mencoder suggestion. I'll |
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keep plugging away as I think I'm done with trading today anyway. Big |
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move. Caught most of it. Good to take a few minutes off. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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