2006-02-27, 06:30 PM
Hello,
This may have been answered elsewhere, but after several hours of wading through many threads, I haven't found a clear answer (perhaps my searching skills are not good enough).
Anyway, I have some movies encoded as WMVs which I would like to play back on my MVP. Right now, all I get is a black screen for a few seconds, then a dump back to the menu screen. I have set the transcoding delay to the max, but it doesn't help (I do get a longer black screen, but nothing plays).
My machine is an Athlon 64 3000+, so I wouldn't think encoding speed would be an issue, but I could be wrong. On the other hand, I downloaded a few 320x240 videos from the Internet, and some of these play fine, which would suggest that my library encoded at 640x480 is not being transcoded fast enough.
I guess my questions are as follows:
1) What logs should I look at to see what is happening, both when it works and when it fails?
2) Are there ways to tweak the transcoding settings specific to WMVs?
3) Should I ideally be using ffmpeg or Trans2MVP? Do both solutions even work with WMVs?
Sorry for asking so much, but it just seems that the majority of questions here deal with Divx or other AVIs, so I just need to know where WMV transcoding strays from the pack.
Thank you very much for any reply,
DW
This may have been answered elsewhere, but after several hours of wading through many threads, I haven't found a clear answer (perhaps my searching skills are not good enough).
Anyway, I have some movies encoded as WMVs which I would like to play back on my MVP. Right now, all I get is a black screen for a few seconds, then a dump back to the menu screen. I have set the transcoding delay to the max, but it doesn't help (I do get a longer black screen, but nothing plays).
My machine is an Athlon 64 3000+, so I wouldn't think encoding speed would be an issue, but I could be wrong. On the other hand, I downloaded a few 320x240 videos from the Internet, and some of these play fine, which would suggest that my library encoded at 640x480 is not being transcoded fast enough.
I guess my questions are as follows:
1) What logs should I look at to see what is happening, both when it works and when it fails?
2) Are there ways to tweak the transcoding settings specific to WMVs?
3) Should I ideally be using ffmpeg or Trans2MVP? Do both solutions even work with WMVs?
Sorry for asking so much, but it just seems that the majority of questions here deal with Divx or other AVIs, so I just need to know where WMV transcoding strays from the pack.
Thank you very much for any reply,
DW
