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    Lossless .AVI to .WMV?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jhill117, Apr 30, 2008.

  1. jhill117

    jhill117 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey Guys,

    I'm trying to put some movies on my newly purchased Microsoft Zune 80gb Media Player (Happy Birthday to me :D). However, it does not appear to play .avi's. All the conversion programs I've found actually have to play the movie, and I don't really trust that. Are there any that can just flat convert .avi to .wmv?
     
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Any conversion from a lossy format to a lossy format will always be lossy.
     
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  3. jhill117

    jhill117 Notebook Consultant

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    That makes me a sad panda :cry:.



    Do you have a suggestion for a free converter that is decent then? :)
     
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    I'm going to start quoting you :eek:

    Not sure about avi to wmv
     
    nobscot6, Apr 30, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    your movies will be downsized to a smaller resolution anyway so it will still look good

    download a program called SUPER converter. does alot of different formats, just a little hard to use if you dont know what your doing

    it actually has a pre-set formats for Zune/PSP/iPOD

    EDIT have a look here http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7154/zunedk7.jpg

    You just need to set the Bitrate for Video/Sound for quality. Of course the higher, the bigger size.
     
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  6. jhill117

    jhill117 Notebook Consultant

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    Flipfire has reversed the sad panda into a happy :D.

    Much love to you sir, I will look into this!
     
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    jhill117 Notebook Consultant

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    May all your User CPs be blessed with bountiful rep :D.
     
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