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WMV files

  • 27-05-2002 1:11pm
    #1
    bombidol
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    Is media player the only player that runs these? I have some files in this format but that always lag and slowdown in Media player

    Bomb


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  • #2
    Chief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭Chief


    Right click on the video in media player, pop into options and slide down the hardware acceleration slider. It can often help mightily.. play around with it ;) Oo-Er!


  • #3
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    ...stands for Windows Media Video, in the same way as WMA stands for Windows Media Audio. It's pretty much a Media-player-only job (WMV is the same as ASF in everything but name).

    However:

    VirtualDub 1.3c and earlier (MS posted a "cease and desist" to the author just after this version was released - current version is 1.4.10 but doesn't support ASFs), or Graphedit (do a google - it's an MS thingy, believe it or not), or(I think) any version of ASFTools, can be used to extract an ASF/WMV to AVI, which can then be encoded as an MPEG.

    The only real problem with these files is that some of them tend to have variable frame rates; something that neither AVI or MPEG formats tend to like, with the result that A/V sync becomes a problem, so results aren't guaranteed with anything suggested above.

    Happy hunting...
    Gadget
    P.S.> I find that some files play more smoothly in Media Player 6.4 than they do in version 7.x (try Start -> Run -> "mplayer2" -> OK to start it)


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