WMV to Kinoma

[ratman]

Anyone know how you can convert a WMV or ASF file to be viewed in Kinoma?

I have tried some freeware applications to convert the WMV to AVI, which worked fine when tested in Real One and Windows Media Player, but then when you try and convert these AVIs using Kinoma Producer the application crashes with a division by 0 error message.

[hansschmucker]

You have to recompress the AVI to something that quicktime can understand. Use Virtualdub and set Audio to Full processing, Compression PCM and Video to Full Processing, Compression MJPEG or Indeo or whatever

[ratman]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[Unregistered]

Ive managed to convert the wmv to an avi that Kinoma Producer can handle. I used Stoik Video Converter in the end with the settings you suggested.

But now Kinoma Producer fails after 20 mins of processing because its run out of disk space, even though I have got 15GB free.

Guess the file I'm processing is just too big (the avi produced is 985Mb!).

[cliejunkie]

when compressing files a temporary file is created to encode/decode the data and later deleted when the new file is saved. During this time, the two files double the media size.

[ratman]

I tried it again and it worked the 2nd time. The directory I was creating the file to was on a network drive, so perhaps the network went a bit 'wobbly' and caused the application to think the drive was full rather than unavailable.

Anyway it worked in the end. Thanks for your help.

[GeekGod]

Kinoma can convert AVI files up to 1GB. Bigger than that and it will choke. It will convert Quicktime files of any size, so for large stuff I convert it to a 100% quality QT. I have converted QT files that were over 4GB and it works like a champ.

I usually use Media Studio Pro to do my conversions (it will go from almost any format to QT directly). You could also use something like Virtual Dub to convert to raw avi before using Quicktime (if the file is in a format Quicktime doesn't read native).

[ratman]

I looked at Virtual Dub but found that the current version does not support conversion of the ASX/WMV formats but found another freeware utility Stoik Video Converter http://www.stoik.com/products/morphman/mm30_svc_demo.htm that was able to do the conversion for me.

[lmame]

For some WMV you can't use this one...
In those cases, give Graph Edit a try (you can find it on http://doom9.org )