WMV Conversion for XBox streaming

[FatherJack]

Here's a guide on success I've had with making vids viewable on the 360, and since it's a Microsoft console, it likes Microsoft WMV files, so my prereqs are WMP11 to stream and Windows Media Encoder 9 to first convert. They both need validation to download/operate so this won't be massively useful if you can't do that.

What I've done in the guide is convert a number of source XVID/MP3 AVIs to a single WMV file, as this was the hardest bit to get working - skip the obvious steps for single files.

1. Run the encoder


2. Start a custom session


3. Select File as the Source from, then Browse and select all the files you want encoded. Then, for each Source, select the Roll over to next source option in At end...


4. ..except for the last one, which should be left on Stop


5. On the Output tab, select Encode to file only and give it a name. It'll append .WMV and place it with the source files.


6. On the Compression tab click Edit. Well, you can fuck about with these settings if you want, to improve bit rate etc, but for multiple files, you can't have Two-pass encoding, which all the other Destination options turn on.


7. Once in the Edit screen select the tab with the Bitrate on. Select an appropriate Audio format based on the source files and set the Video size to be Same as video input. Again, you can experiment, but there's no point setting either any higher than the source file, or your TV's resolution.



8. Click OK, Apply and then the green Start Encoding button. Close the Video pane (marked in red) to dramatically increase speed.


Hope it's of use.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

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[spoodie]

Handy, I will go through this later at home. With pictures as well, just what I need.

A mate pointed out this: http://www.tversity.com/
Streams and re-encodes on-the-fly, in theory no need for WMP. How well it works I can't say yet.