Congratulat​ions on WM9's manadatory status for HD-DVD

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20040611_123607.html

Congratulations guys, I've been waiting for this day. Now maybe I can get some Windows Media based DVDs that have movies that I want...

Win Media - the good:

When i want to publish to web or make a home video for computer.. win media rocks - so long as i work off (large) avi files as masters

Win Media - the bad

When ever i download a winmedia file - and try to open it in premiere / vegas what have you... it doesnt come in like an avi or mpeg - usually not opening - or only coming in as a one frame movie = NO editing / frames


* i admit i have not waded into the monolith that is winmedia documentation ( ie; whats the URL to a functioning tuner you can edit and download off msdn?)

Have you ever considered the possiblity that the software lacks support for WM9? Try downloading the WM9 VCM. That might help.

both premiere and vegas have the win media plugin install - wehn you instal the ap - you can output to it no prob.

all im saying is when you come in contact with an EXISTING asf / wma etc - it is usually USELESS

so...
keep your avi's as masters
or use mpeg
editable - redistributable - just plain better

win media is TOO CLOSED

It's always easy to convert to windows media formats. And a pain to convert from them. Guess Microsoft wants it that way so they can get some really tasty DRM going with it. Maybe WM have some good technology and codecs nowadays. But as long as their codecs can't play nice with third party apps like so many others (DivX, MPEG2 etc) I don't bother with WM.

And before you mention Quicktime and Real; I think they are even worse.

/Lars.

lars wrote:

It's always easy to convert to windows media formats. And a pain to convert from them. Guess Microsoft wants it that way so they can get some really tasty DRM going with it. Maybe WM have some good technology and codecs nowadays. But as long as their codecs can't play nice with third party apps like so many others (DivX, MPEG2 etc) I don't bother with WM.

And before you mention Quicktime and Real; I think they are even worse.

/Lars.

I find it easy to convert from and to Windows Media. I use third party applications such as Virtual Dub. My only issue is that I can't convert audio in avi files to WMA, I can only convert to WMV using the WM9 VCM that Microsoft released.