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peterson99

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« on: October 26, 2010, 08:47:00 PM »

Hi, im just wondering if there are any free, easy to use programs that will convert mkv to wmv, while maintaining the 5.1 sound. So far the only program i have found is moyea mkv converter however it requires you to purchase it. Any help would be appreciated
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ryandlf

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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2010, 06:58:00 AM »

With the functionality of the xbox at the moment, there really isn't much of a need to convert to wmv as there once was. I fought that idea for a long time, but it will end up causing you more frustration than anything, not to mention super long conversion processes. Either convert to mp4 or use the process I described earlier to play mkv files, or pay for a program to do the conversion for you. It gets a little trickier when trying to maintain 5.1 sound because you usually have to demux the video file first so you get both a video and an audio file and then recombine them back into a wmv. For this process I used tsMuxer to demux the file into both a ts video file and a separate audio file, and then I would use tmpgenc to re-encode those two files back together. TMPGenc is not a free software though.
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lordvader129

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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2010, 07:09:00 AM »

mediacoder is a free program that seems to be able to convert anything to anything

but like ryandlf says, its likely to result in more frustration than success
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peterson99

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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2010, 09:49:00 AM »

Alright ill see what the mp4 is like... thanks for the help
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tariqosuave

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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2010, 07:35:00 AM »

QUOTE(peterson99 @ Oct 27 2010, 04:49 PM) View Post

Alright ill see what the mp4 is like... thanks for the help


I don't know why people gave up on this.
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hxcmusic

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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2010, 11:03:00 AM »

The only way to get 5.1 audio from a 360 is WMVHD or AVI.

http://blogs.msdn.co...ayback-faq.aspx

That being said, if your PC is powerful enough ps3 media server can transcode an mkv to a format that the 360 can read (probably mp4) and stream it.
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Popple

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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2010, 09:30:00 PM »

Try using GOT Sent, Its not too bad but I don't know the specifics
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tariqosuave

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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2010, 10:33:00 PM »

QUOTE(Popple @ Nov 15 2010, 05:30 AM) View Post

Try using GOT Sent, Its not too bad but I don't know the specifics


Yeah but that only does avi and mp4... mp4 kinda sucks because it has a 4gb size limit.
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