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| wmv for MS Zune and Creataive Zen... | ||||
| iThinkYouBrokeIt posted 2007 May 30 20:41 | ||||
| I'm interested in converting some videos to wmv because it's the only mutual format for both the Zen Vision M and the Zune. I'm the owner of a Zen, and i know two Zune owners.
From my understanding, the Zen is alot pickier about wmv videos. not every .wmv video i get from the internet works on my zen, regardless of whether the resolution is supported or not. While i'm on the subject, why does it max out at a measily 320x240? I can play divx/xvid videos at 720x480, so why not the same for wmv? Anyway, back to the point. If i use Windows Media Encoder, (or another wmv converter?), what specifications would i have to apply to the encoding to make it mutually compatible with both players? I can't seem to be able to find any info on this. Perhaps i'm not looking hard enough... i dunno. Any help? | ||||
| churchie04 posted 2007 Jun 06 22:27 | ||||
| Well,
I currently have both of them at my home as I'm testing which I actually want. I got the Zune first and converted a bunch of xvid's to WMV since the Zune requires that. I then got the Vision W and tried to copy those same files over...NO GO. Problem was that the Vision requires WMV9, while the Zune can take 9,8, or 7 (i believe). I converted to 8 since it was faster though. So, with WME you'd at least make sure you are going to WMV9. It can max out at a total of about 780kb/s max bit rate because of the Zune's limitations. So I use 700kb/s for video and 64kb/s for audio (seems low, but sounds just fine for videos). Zune won't take anything that is VBR, so it needs to be CBR for video. So, in short: WMV9, max 780kb/s , CBR video, and as you stated max 320x240 resolution, that should get you started. | ||||
| iThinkYouBrokeIt posted 2007 Jun 06 22:32 | ||||
I tried using Windows Media Encoder to convert some stuff to wmv9, etc and it still didn't work in my zen. I could use the Creative video encoder, which is really not a very good encoder, to convert stuff to wmv. but i don't know if the files it produces are zune-compatible, since i havent had a chance to give said files to any zune-owning friends. Also, i can't do much with WME at the moment, because it has vista compatibility issues. A MICROSOFT PROGRAM doesn't work properly in Vista. ugh.... I haven't run into very many programs that didnt work right. This is probably the second. But i just can't get over the fact that it's a MS program that doesn't work. If you can find out what program works very well, and produces mutually compatible files, please let me know | ||||
| kevo777 posted 2007 Jun 26 08:37 | ||||
From the official Zune website (http://www.zune.net/en-us/support/howto/play/enjoyvideo.htm)
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| theewizard posted 2007 Jun 27 13:20 | ||||
| have you tried gspot on a file that works, or media info, to get the exact specs..
then try duplicating those settings, you might try super, it can do a large number of formats, and lets you set the video and audio bit rates and Frame rates FPS | ||||
| RogerTango posted 2008 Aug 14 16:47 | ||||
| I am encoding my WMV with WM9 audio and video, both CBR... Video at 300kbps, video is very good quality. I am using AviSynth to feed to Nic's WMEnc, results are VERY GOOD.
Using this, I would suspect that both the Zen and Zume would play it fine. I however only have the Zen (and love it!!). HTH, RogerTango | ||||
| iThinkYouBrokeIt posted 2008 Aug 14 17:50 | ||||
| I've found that the creative video converter seems to create wmv files that are cross compatible. |
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