Converting AVI to WMV with Microsoft Media Encoder

[philipdeht]

I'm trying to convert a 20Mb .avi file to a .wmv file. It's a screen capture with spoken commentary and the specs for the avi are:

Audio: Rate: 22.050 kHz Sample: 16 bit Channels: mono Format: PCM
Video: 1024 x 768 Frames: 2498 Rate: 15 Frames per sec Format: Microsoft Video 1

I'm converting it into a .wmv file using Microsoft Media Encoder 7, I've tried the following settings:

The default "Screen capture for modems (28.8Kbps)",
Audio: Codec: ACELP.net Format: 5 K bit/s 8000Hz mono
Video: Codec: Windows media screen 7

With this the video side is ok but the audio is crap. I've tried other settings but I can't seem to improve the audio, or if I get the audio to work the video doesn't! Any help on the best settings to use would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[PaulG4AWZ]

hi Philip hrrm why do you need to do this? are you trying to send this out on a dial up line from a web page?
I do not know what a WMV format is? is it something to do with a product bundled with ME or something?
If you are trying to compress an avi to send it somewhere, 15 FPS is too fast to send down a 28.8k line, never mind audio as well, the maximum is probably 3FPS to include any audio. At that size! 384x268 will make good mono radio qual audio and about 8 to 10 FPS @ 28k.
One other point 'can it be coded and sent as an off line READ file in MPG1 .... I use AVI to MPG V2 by XING sucessfully ... Paul