WMV to MPEG conversion tool?

May 9, 2005 4:41 PM

Can anyone suggest a tool to convert WMV to MPEG format? A tool that is preferably freeware, though licensed software would be great too.

This is just for a friend's school project. He asked me if I knew of any tools to convert WMV to MPEG, after searching Google and SourceForge without find any specific conversion tools, I though I'd ask the MetaFilter community.

posted by Colloquial Collision to technology (7 comments total)

It depends on the version of WMV, but ffmpeg will probably do the trick (it definitely converts asf files). Also, for Mac OS, ffmpegX.
posted by eschatfische at 4:51 PM on May 9, 2005

WinAvi. It's not free or Free, but it's a quick one button program that does the job.
It's win32 only though.
posted by madajb at 4:58 PM on May 9, 2005

mplayer (rather, mencoder, which is part of mplayer) will do that. But it incorporates a bunch of ffmpeg code, so it might be easier to just use ffmpeg if that works.
posted by hattifattener at 5:01 PM on May 9, 2005

TMpegenc. Doom9 has a guide. Use the VCD instructions and you should be fine. It will still look pretty bad though.

Free.
posted by easyasy3k at 5:34 PM on May 9, 2005

mpeg1, as in VCDs? I gave my mum TMPGEnc and she finds it easy enough. There's also a plugin to allow it to do Quicktime.

It can do mpeg2 too, but that costs after a month of use.
posted by holloway at 7:43 PM on May 9, 2005

OldVersion has VirtualDub 1.3c which could do the job.
posted by darksquirrel at 8:44 PM on May 9, 2005

Xilisoft Video Converter is free for clips under 5 minutes and supports a ton of formats. I used it for a short clip the other day, and it seemed to work pretty well.
posted by teleskiving at 8:50 AM on May 10, 2005