Hello peeps. I'm having some trouble with a hdwmv file i have. i copied it over to my ps3 and the video plays as vc-1. theres no sound as i later found out its wma pro. i tried to use tsmuxer but it says it cant detect the stream type.
My question is what programs do i use to convert the file to mp4 with aac audio.
If you know how to demux the video/audio streams, that'd be your best bet.
The problem with .wmv (and .doc, and .docx, and .wma - notice the trend?) is that they're proprietary, meaning that only a few people have access to them (as opposed to open source, which anyone can access), and so not many programs will be able to work with them. (The few that do, not surprisingly, all demand some form of payment to use. Not that that's necessarily bad, just stupid.)
Anyway.
You'll have the most luck if you demux the file into its constituents (the VC-1 video and the WMA audio), then convert each one to its proper format (VC-1 is fine for the video, AAC or AC3 or even MP3 for the audio) before remuxing them back into one file (possible an .mp4 container or an .m2ts container).
I haven't worked much with WMV files, though, so that's about as much help as I am.
Random rant: WMV files are absolutely the worst video files to work with, in my book. Everything you can do easily with other video files you either can take ages to do or can't do at all with WMV files. Like scanning back. Every single WMV file I've ever tried to watch is incapable of rewinding. Or, if it is, it does so in the SLOWEST possible manner.
It's ridiculous. It's why I stick to the h264 and DivX/Xvid codecs. So much easier to work with.
I tried eac3to and got 'the format of the source file could not be detected <error>'
heres some info on the file from mediainforaw
Format : Windows Media
File size : 6.42 GiB
PlayTime : 2h 6mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 7245 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 7438 Kbps
Movie name : Star Trek
Genre : Action
Recorded date : 2009
Encoded date : UTC 2009-10-04 05:15:52.829
MediaFoundationVersion : 2.112
Video #0
Codec : VC-1
Codec/Family : VC-1
Codec/Info : Microsoft
Codec description : Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile -
PlayTime : 2h 6mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 6788 Kbps
Width : 1280 pixels
Height : 532 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 2.406
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.416
Language : en-us
AspectRatioX : 1
AspectRatioY : 1
DeviceConformanceTemplate : AP@L2
Audio #0
Codec : WMA3
Codec/Info : Windows Media Audio 3
Codec description : Windows Media Audio 10 Professional - 640 kbps, 48 kHz, 5.1 channel 24 bit (A/V) 1-pass CBR
PlayTime : 2h 6mn
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Language : en-us
DeviceConformanceTemplate : M2
Iv'e tried Tsmuxer, eac3to and Megui has been preprocessing the audio stream for an hour and a half now.
EDIT: ok i scraped megui and tried foobar2000 from the thread you linked me to. I have it finally converting to mp3 now after downmixing the multichannels to stereo.
but now how do i mux the mp3 audio with the vc-1 video.
RE-EDIT: Sorted. I can extract the video stream with megui and convert it to mp4, then mux with tsmuxer.
Thanks for the foobar link kajnrig.
That I do not know. Again, I haven't worked with WMV files (and especially not VC-1 video; I've worked with its cousin, h264, but not it), so I can't give you any concrete advice.
You could try tsMuxer, although it appears it doesn't support .mp3 audio. (Still worth a shot.)
I don't know, though. Google isn't helping much, either.
Sorry I can't help more.
Can you use Foobar to convert it to AC3 or AAC, by any chance?
I Didn't know tsmuxer didn't support MP3's but i can just use itunes to convert the mp3 to aac.
Then with the MP4 video stream and AAC audio i can wrap it in a m2ts container in tsmuxer right?
I understand why you rant. these wmvs are a pain in the ass to convert compared to mkvs.
