[MacDV] wmv to mov

[Nick Scalise]

That really only applies to MPEG files and even that is easily adjusted for.
 
On Tuesday, February 01, 2005, at 11:31AM, Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk at mac.com> wrote:

>I found that often you loose the audio during conversions from one format to another.
>
>Gerhard
> 
>On Friday, January 21, 2005, at 10:54AM, Mark M.Florida <markf at squareblue.com> wrote:
>
>>I'd give VLC a try.  I know it's possible to convert MPEG-2 to other 
>>QuickTime-based formats, and VLC can play WMV files as well, so you 
>>should be able to go from WMV -> QT (use a high-quality codec like DV 
>>or MJPEG-A for minimal image loss at a manageable file size), then 
>>you'll still have to go to MPEG-2 using iDVD (it does the conversion 
>>automatically).
>>
>>No guarantees on image quality, though -- that file will have gone 
>>through many "generations" of recompression by the time it hits the TV.
>>
>>- Mark
>>
>>On Jan 18, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Djwp wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a utility (for Mac OS X) out there that will convert .wmv 
>>> files to .mov or a format that I can then import to iDVD in order to 
>>> burn onto a DVD?  I have a series of small movies in wmv format that 
>>> I'd like to archive on a DVD.


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