ur friend was ripped the audio cd using windows media player, rite?
and all files are wma rite?
those file are drm-ed,

look at the options "copy protect music",
this options is enabled by default and it will created copy protected music...
many ppl wasnt ware of that i think

doom9 forum have a thread that discuss about how to remove drm-ed wma file,
but i cant give direct link lol,
might violate the forum rules,
may b u can ask mod for a approvement

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
this one definitely better than super.

the media coder will keep complaining if u didnt set a output folder
set the 2 "output folder" to your "my documents" or desktop,

btw, im just start using this apps

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Feb 21 2007, 10:54 PM

The video u copied to ur player might be not compatible with the decoder, so ur player couldnt recognize it.
Does the player u bought come with any video converter software?
what is the name/brand of ur mp4 digital player?

u should post screenshot about the amv converter error message.
the codec info about the source video and the windows machine spec might help alot.

if ur player accept mp4 container, there still a ffmpeg for mac machine,
but ...amv is weird a/v container

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...9&#entry4422549

SUPER (C) supports the conversion (encoding) to most of the above mentioned formats.To list few examples :
drag & drop any audio or even video file and extract ONLY the sound (audio) by converting it to
mp2, mp3, ac3, aac & amr_nb (the last 2 are playable on Nokia) format.
convert any type of video <--> to your favorite PocketPC or Mobile phone 3gp/3g2 format (or vice versa).
convert Flash containing FLV video to any other format.
convert RealMedia files to any other format.
Well if u mean direct stream copy(no conversion is done), its impossible since there is no Real vfw codecs for avi

Aiks I believe mediacoder and super, both also can perform a/v conversion from any container to avi, of course including sound, and both program also are free too.
well avi can contain almost any a/v formats, which format u wan?

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Added on May 31, 2007, 10:25 pmu transcoded the video file twice "original video" > mpeg4 > mpeg1, like that the final video quality sure degraded alot la

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: May 31 2007, 10:25 PM

Try feed tmpgenc with avisynth script?

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Jun 1 2007, 02:28 AM

foobar2000 or SUPER or mediacoder.
for foobar2000, u have to dl lame bundle at rarewares.org

http://redcheek.net/erm/index.htm ?
easy real media producer, didnt use it for ages.
if the encoding doesnt work, probably u need to install flv parser and avisynth.
hope someone can suggest a better apps.

windows media player DXVA(directx hardware acceleration) only support wmv/vc1 IIRC..
for mpeg2, u must make sure ur GPU support mpeg2 dxva, and its only work with certain commercial decoder(cyberlink/elecard moonlight).

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Sep 22 2007, 01:30 AM

if u wan better quality, use 2 pass encoding mode, single pass quantizer and cbr mode(target bitrate) is not recommended for normal use.
if target quantizer is 2 = highest quality, but file size is unpredicatble.

2 pass encoding mode dont use target quantizer or bitrate. target bitrate for 2 pass endoing only exist on command-line version of xvid encoder.

packed bitstream have nothing to do with the quality, but avoid to using it, it will make ur video file unplayable with other mpeg4 video decoder execpt xvid/libavcodec.

im sure u are using old version of xvid vfw encoder coz xvid developer already removed the "packed bitstream" option.duh

make sure u are set the right file size, use default settings, set 2 pass log file location,
and the most important, do not alter any settings between 2 pass.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Oct 9 2007, 08:21 PM

nope, nothing wrong, the xvid encoder on virtualdub is what version?
make sure u run twopass-first pass, then run twopass-second pass.

if avidemux produce better quality compare with xvid in virutal dub, then use it.
not sure what happend to ur xvid setting on virtualdub

dont waste ur time if u wan to convert it to hdvd9 lol, the quality would still suck if converted to hdvd9 mpeg2/h264/vc1 video.
unless ur rmvb has resolution 1920x1080 and over 20mbp/s of quality.

Export to wav to avoid quality loss, just make sure the wav file is 44100Kz and 16bit 1411kbps, nero or windows media player should be able to burn it to Audio CD.

should be easy real media producer
http://redcheek.net/erm/index.htm
freeware lol.

btw why wan to encode to real video?
mpeg4/h264 is the future

iirc real video encoder is very slow compare with other encoders, if u cant play the HD video in real time, then transcoding it to other video format would take 3x or more time to finish it.
mind to tell the HD video use what codec? u should find a highly optimized video player to playback the HD video instead of transcoding it.