Converting WMV files to MPEG2

Lampei · 12-22-01, 03:20 PM

I was just looking at how long it would take to convert a 30 min WMV file to MPEG2 on my computer...7 hours!!!! And that was at it's best...it started to get even slower when I surfed the web. Should it really take that long or do I just have a really slow computer. I'm using TMPGEnc to convert it.

twikoff · 12-22-01, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by Lampei
I was just looking at how long it would take to convert a 30 min WMV file to MPEG2 on my computer...7 hours!!!! And that was at it's best...it started to get even slower when I surfed the web. Should it really take that long or do I just have a really slow computer. I'm using TMPGEnc to convert it.

whats the speed of your computer?

yea.. it should take quite a long time

and the answer could be taht its also because you have a really slow computer

Lampei · 12-22-01, 04:54 PM

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Originally posted by twikoff

whats the speed of your computer?

yea.. it should take quite a long time

and the answer could be taht its also because you have a really slow computer

hey, now...it was quite zippy 2 years ago

It's just a PIII, 500 MHz, 128 Megs of RAM. That's my next project, build myself a new computer. I bought that one from Gateway and had nothing but problems at first. I didn't have to format it, but I was close to doing it about 4 times.

Lampei · 12-23-01, 03:50 PM

So is it my computer?

kahuna · 12-23-01, 10:01 PM

Is there a program that will convert a ASF file to Mpeg2 format?

Lampei · 12-24-01, 07:57 AM

I think the one I used did...
TMPGEnc.com

twikoff · 12-24-01, 08:11 AM

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Originally posted by kahuna
Is there a program that will convert a ASF file to Mpeg2 format?

yea.. you can get instructions from vcdhelp.com

but of course you can never get the quality back

you will just end up with a huge mpeg2 file, with the crappy quality of a asf file

kahuna · 12-24-01, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by twikoff

yea.. you can get instructions from vcdhelp.com

but of course you can never get the quality back

you will just end up with a huge mpeg2 file, with the crappy quality of a asf file

I found the info I needed at vcdhelp after I posted this message. I heard the same thing about converting ASF files. Plus I am doing a 21mb size file now and it is going to take 31 hours. Does it usually take this long.

Kahuna

Lampei · 12-24-01, 08:12 PM

Hey, that was my question

12-22-01, 03:20 PM	#1
Lampei DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 2,708	Converting WMV files to MPEG2 I was just looking at how long it would take to convert a 30 min WMV file to MPEG2 on my computer...7 hours!!!! And that was at it's best...it started to get even slower when I surfed the web. Should it really take that long or do I just have a really slow computer. I'm using TMPGEnc to convert it. __________________ So many movies...so little time

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Lampei DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 2,708	I think the one I used did... TMPGEnc.com __________________ So many movies...so little time

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Lampei DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 2,708	Hey, that was my question __________________ So many movies...so little time