Specter on 15/3/2009 at 14:42
Hello all.
Ive been fighting with this for a couple of days. I'm trying to convert the old avi's from Thief Gold and 2 to something that can be played on a portable media device. Im sure there is a way, but I havnt been able to get it to work. Ive managed to convert it to a few formats, but the sound is always lost and I am too much of an amateur to get it right. Has anyone done this or know how?
The supported formats for my device are:
MPEG-42 (ASP@L5 AVI, up to DVD resolution)
WMV (MP@ML, up to DVD resolution) included WMV protected files
M-JPEG (in QVGA resolution)
HD support: MPEG-4 (ASP 720p) & WMV HD (MP 720p)
MPEG-2 MP@ML up to 10 Mbps (up to DVD resolution) and AC3 stereo sound (5.1)
H.264 up to DVD resolution with AAC
This is essentially gibberish to me, so could anyone point me in a direction of knowing what steps I should take next?
Thanks!
Nameless Voice on 19/3/2009 at 18:04
If it supports MPEG-4 I assume it supports XviD / DivX, though I may be wrong. If it does support those, just open the videos in (
http://www.virtualdub.org/) VirtualDub, set the compression mode (Ctrl+P) to XviD (you may also want to adjust the advanced quality settings), and then save it (F7) as a new .avi.
ZylonBane on 19/3/2009 at 19:18
XviD conversions of all the major cutscenes would be a nice additions to TTLG's spiffy new high-bandwidth media library. I'm not sure about the legality of it though.
Muzman on 20/3/2009 at 05:17
Don't they still have some playback problems in game? Or is it all to do with with having to re-register that annoying file (which DDfix does automatically now)?
Specter on 25/3/2009 at 20:10
Thanks for the replies, lads.
I think this just isnt meant to be. Converting the videos works fine, but opening the folder containing the output files crashes explorer right away, and trying to open the new file from any media player crashes that program instantly too. Whatever is happening, its poison to everything near it.
