Comments on: WMV to MPEG conversion tool?

Question: WMV to MPEG conversion tool?

Colloquial Collision — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:41:07 -0800

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.

By: eschatfische

eschatfische — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:51:25 -0800

It depends on the version of WMV, but ffmpeg will probably do the trick (it definitely converts asf files). Also, for Mac OS, ffmpegX.

By: madajb

madajb — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:58:22 -0800

WinAvi. It's not free or Free, but it's a quick one button program that does the job.
It's win32 only though.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:01:54 -0800

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.

By: easyasy3k

easyasy3k — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:34:37 -0800

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

Free.

By: holloway

holloway — Mon, 09 May 2005 19:43:22 -0800

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.

By: darksquirrel

darksquirrel — Mon, 09 May 2005 20:44:36 -0800

OldVersion has VirtualDub 1.3c which could do the job.

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Tue, 10 May 2005 08:50:21 -0800

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.