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Training Video Conversion
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Training Video Conversion // New Users
Post by Steinie // Jun 17, 2008, 8:44am
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I own a bunch of the Caligari tutorials about TS 7 that I want to watch on a portable DVD player. It doesn't play them because they are in WMV format. I have a conversion program named "Super" which could convert the format to another. What would be the best plan of action? The player doesn't handle DivX. |
Post by JimB // Jun 17, 2008, 9:17am
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I recently had a similar problem and found PocketDivxEncoder which I found ideal,you can download it here :-
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/PocketDivXEncoder
It will encode to Xvid format which in my case was fine,if that does'nt work I'm sure there will a solution here :-
http://www.videohelp.com/
Click on the second bottom link on the above page because it leads to version 3.96 which is the latest.
BTW it is free
Jim |
Post by JimB // Jun 17, 2008, 9:31am
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Just remembered I had to use it in conjunction with Stoik.
http://www.stoik.com/products/svc/ |
Post by Steinie // Jun 17, 2008, 9:43am
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Thanks JimB I'll try this program when I get home tonight. |
Post by RAYMAN // Jun 17, 2008, 10:42am
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Steinie remember our thread about DVD authoring systems......
I use Magix for making my DVDs !!!
I just loaded the point edit tutorial and it works ....
As for codexses you can use a whole bunch of them... I never had
any problems on any player !
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Post by jamesmc // Jun 17, 2008, 11:18am
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The tutorials I purchased won't play on my Vista computer because they are searching for an audio codec.
Don't know which one it could be.
Anyone know? The video I can get to play in Camtasia studio, but no audio.
Heck, even Adobe Premier with its 10 zillion codecs won't play the WMV file tutorials because it's says it's damaged or bad format.
I've downloaded several times to make sure it wasn't corrupt. |
Post by TomG // Jun 17, 2008, 11:42am
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It's a Windows Media Voice codec if memory serves me rightly, that can't be found or used on Vista. It only affects about 2 or 3 courses, and on the release of Vista, we dropped that particular codec setting.
Unfortunately I do not know of any solution to getting the audio to play on Vista, that I can recall. There are some "Media Player Classic" packs that might do the trick, I did test them at the time, but I forget if they were succesful in playing that codec in Vista or not.
HTH!
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Post by brotherx // Jun 18, 2008, 1:53am
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have you tried VLC? plays just about evertything. |
Post by Jack Edwards // Jun 18, 2008, 3:02am
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You could also try this:
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
I'm using the 32-bit version at the moment and not having any problems, but they are actively developing a native 64-bit version.
Also Vegas would be very good for re-encoding to DVD format. Keep in mind you're going to take a serious quality hit because you're re-encoding something that's already been compressed with a lossy format. And unless you plan to record to BlueRay or HD and are watching on an HDTV, you're likely going to take a resolution hit as well. If I remember correctly regular DVD format is 720x480... |
Post by jamesmc // Jun 18, 2008, 10:24am
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It's a Windows Media Voice codec if memory serves me rightly, that can't be found or used on Vista. It only affects about 2 or 3 courses, and on the release of Vista, we dropped that particular codec setting.
Unfortunately I do not know of any solution to getting the audio to play on Vista, that I can recall. There are some "Media Player Classic" packs that might do the trick, I did test them at the time, but I forget if they were succesful in playing that codec in Vista or not.
HTH!
Tom
Okay, found the solution, perhaps it will help others with Windows Vista or Win Media Player that can't play the file, here's the codec.
Per the Microsoft help, I clicked on the find on web and it eventually led me to this web page. (I'll leave out all the middle Web Pages and jump straight to the source)
Both audio and video files play now. :)
http://www.voiceage.com/acelp_eval_eula.php
ACELP®.net Plug-In |
Post by JimB // Jun 18, 2008, 11:32pm
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I found this converter when browsing Videohelp and from what I have tried so far it works very well its called Quick Media Converter (QMC) and can be downloaded free from http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/
It has many convertion formats list can be seen here http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Quick_Media_Converter#usercomments
Jim |
Post by Steinie // Jun 19, 2008, 2:28am
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One problem I'm finding is when converting WMV to any other format the size of the file quadruples.
Another snag is that some of the later tutorials use Shockwave. Can these be converted so that I can play on a portable DVD/CD player? |
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