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WMV, or Windows Media Video, is a video compression and container format created by Microsoft for several proprietary codecs.

WMV, or Windows Media Video, is a video compression and container format created by Microsoft for several proprietary codecs. The Internet media type is video/x-ms-wmv.

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How to get better quality converting MP4 to WMV with ffmpeg?

I am converting MP4 files to WMV with these two rescaling commands: ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -y -vf scale=-1:360 test1.wmv ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -y -vf scale=-1:720 test2.wmv I've also tried: ffmpeg -g 1 -b 16000k -i test1.mp4 test1.wmv However, the .wmv…
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How can I create a video from a directory of images in C#?

I have a directory of bitmaps that are all of the same dimension. I would like to convert these bitmaps into a video file. I don't care if the video file (codec) is wmv or avi. My only requirement is that I specify the frame rate. This does not…
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WMV streaming file size limit

I have a windows media player embedded in my web page view:
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Unable to play video Microsoft media player for html pages

i am trying to play videos on my site. its working on production. After publishing site on domain player isn't playing videos. Instead its showing msgs on media player bar like 'Preparing to connect', 'Connecting...' and 'Ready', which shows dark…
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How to generate video screencaps of video files via linux commandline

Is there a command line program for linux (ubuntu) which can generate a large image containing say 6 caps from a given video (e.g. WMV) laid out storyboard style (I know on Windows media player classic can do this)? I need this for part of a script…
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how to embed WMV files in my html file

i have made some demo movies in WMV format that i want to embed in my html page. I've found some code to do that, but one thing annoys me: it shows a black front in stead of a picture of the first frame. And i can ofcourse put some descriptive text…
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Hardware accelerated video in DirectShow / WinForms

Currently prototyping a Windows .NET app that needs to play back high definition WMV and H264 video. My test files are full 1080p. The target hardware has weak Atom processors but strong NVidia 9400 graphics. I know the graphics are integrated but…
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Converting wmv to mp4 using ffmpeg

I want convert wmv file to mp4 using ffmpeg. Video details 1920x1080, total bitrate 7978kbps, frame rate 29 fps. Image slideshow, no audio. It show audio data, but there was no option to disable audio when I created wmv. ffmpeg -i input.wmv -c:v…
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Convert video from Mp4 ,avi format to wmv format using C#

I have used Microsoft Expression Encoder to append two videos and this thing works Fine The problem is that when i tried to append videos other than 'wmv' ,it gives exception of FileNot Supported I searched on google but i was unable to find the…
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How can I play wmv video in HTML player?

I want to Play wmv video in browser, and place header and footer in the page. I am unable to play mp4 video, but I want to play wmv. I google it but unable to find anything. Kindly guide me ho to play wmv video from HTML page.
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Embed .WMV files in Chrome

I had a solution to show both .MP4 and .WMV embedded in the browser. It worked fine in both IE and Chrome, but for some time ago it stopped working in Chrome. Chrome will not show any files (mp4 or wmv), but it works fine in IE. I googled it, and…
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WPF Media Element Video Source

I try to set video source in XAML code, video doesn't play: So I try to set video source in codebehind, that doesn't play too. : bgvideo.Source = new…
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What video formats (hopefully WMV) support transparencies?

I'm trying to animate my desktop application for a client. I would like to animate the background with a loop and offer region specific animations on top of this (allowing transparencies to see the layered animations underneath). Is this possible…
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Why does Process.Start(string) return null for a WMV file

So I have a WMV video file: var fileName = @"C:\MyFolder\MyVideo.WMV" and I am starting the video and getting my Process ID with the code: var process = Process.Start(fileName); if (process != null) { processId = process.Id; } Although my…
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ffmpeg Unrecognized option...Error splitting the argument list: Option not found

This is probably a pretty simple question for those of you who use ffmpeg, but I'm very new at it, and I'm using it on Windows, which apparently isn't the norm. From cmd, with my environment variable set at my ffmpeg install directory, I'm…
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