Tutorial: How to Convert MKV (x264) to 360 Ready WMV-HD Options

[wallace4793]

Encode 360 seems to do a decent job, easy to use and configure. Ive converted a few samples without a hitch :-) .. and itsfree to a good home!

[impimpin206]

Huuuuuuuuge thanks mate. Have converted about 5 of my hd movies so far without a hitch

That's the kind of feedback I enjoy reading

Cheers!

[impimpin206]

Encode 360 seems to do a decent job, easy to use and configure. Ive converted a few samples without a hitch :-) .. and itsfree to a good home!

First, you're posting in the wrong thread. Second, new beta seems equally problematic to me. I encoded a tiny clip and that went okay, but trying to encode various MKV movies crashed the encoder under Vista. Never had such crashes with the professionally developed software that I use. If you have questions / comments / anything to say about Encode360, do it somewhere other than this thread.

[vuhuyle]

Can anyone else post your encode times? I'm looking at 24 hours left on mine...

Windows XP sp2
AMD X2 3800+
2 gb ram

[ludeboy12]

Can anyone else post your encode times? I'm looking at 24 hours left on mine...

Windows XP sp2
AMD X2 3800+
2 gb ram

Seems a lil long. I'm doing my first encode right now but with my AMD 64 X2 3600 and 2gb of ram it said 7hrs when i first started it. Though its analyzing now so im not sure it that means 7hrs to analyze and 7+ to encode.

Did a sample to test it but i was in the other room while it was encoding so i missed the whole analyze bit.

on a side note. Is there any way to actually store these onto the 360s HD??

[impimpin206]

Seems a lil long. I'm doing my first encode right now but with my AMD 64 X2 3600 and 2gb of ram it said 7hrs when i first started it. Though its analyzing now so im not sure it that means 7hrs to analyze and 7+ to encode.

Did a sample to test it but i was in the other room while it was encoding so i missed the whole analyze bit.

on a side note. Is there any way to actually store these onto the 360s HD??

The time listed is the start-to-finish total. To my knowledge, there is not a way to put them on the xbox HDD yet... maybe with one of the PC HD browsers, but I haven't bothered hooking my drive up to the PC to explore it at all. This may be possible? At work right now, but will look into this tonight/tomorrow.

[pitz]

Noooo.

Followed everything to the word. Install it all. Bang, go to add the movie.avs and it just hangs and TMPGEnc fails to respond ever again..

[pitz]

Noooo.

Followed everything to the word. Install it all. Bang, go to add the movie.avs and it just hangs and TMPGEnc fails to respond ever again..

Happy to say a reboot got it working. Danged if I can see a edit button.

[gambit0608]

A HUGE THANKS to impimpin!!!!. you can't believe how many other apps i tried that did not work. This works flawlessly and the programs in your tutorial take advantage of my quad core cpu.


One quick question: When i run TMPEG Xpress and load in the .txp4e file i am not given the option to choose the WMV 9 advanced profile, it just says Windows Media Video 9 (under video). Does this even matter? Is it the same thing?


Thanks Again for this awesome write up.[color=#3333FF]

This post has been edited by gambit0608: Jul 15 2007, 07:31 PM

[ludeboy12]

wow that sux i wasn't watching the preview and i didn't realize till it finished that i forgot to crop the black bars....looks like i'll be encoding this again.

[impimpin206]

wow that sux i wasn't watching the preview and i didn't realize till it finished that i forgot to crop the black bars....looks like i'll be encoding this again.

The video could need cropping with the cut-edit under clip details. However if you didn't change the resolution to match your source file, that would create black bars too. If you did correct the resolution to match your source, then you would need to crop edit them out

A HUGE THANKS to impimpin!!!!. you can't believe how many other apps i tried that did not work. This works flawlessly and the programs in your tutorial take advantage of my quad core cpu.
One quick question: When i run TMPEG Xpress and load in the .txp4e file i am not given the option to choose the WMV 9 advanced profile, it just says Windows Media Video 9 (under video). Does this even matter? Is it the same thing?
Thanks Again for this awesome write up.[color=#3333FF]

Yeah, this encodes an advanced profile. Under the step 7 screenshot, look at the blue edit box labeled 'video' and it displays it there. Glad to hear its working well and taking advantage of Quad.

Cheers

[ludeboy12]

ya my source was a 1080i cap from the dvr and though i had the output settings correct i just forgot about cropping the black bars. oh well.

[joker927]

Using the exact methods in this guide, converting a 98 min 720p source file with 5.1 audio took 12 hours with a E6300 1.86Ghz Core2Duo and 2GB RAM.

I have converted 6 files and the average time seems to be about 11 hours.

[impimpin206]

Using the exact methods in this guide, converting a 98 min 720p source file with 5.1 audio took 12 hours with a E6300 1.86Ghz Core2Duo and 2GB RAM.

I have converted 6 files and the average time seems to be about 11 hours.

You can overclock that to 2.4 ghz with the stock Intel fan easy

[MagicUK]

Right im doing my first 3 hour long convert, 8 hours on the time scale, i couldnt get encode 360 working either so this seems the better option! also a quick query while converting (doing it now as i type) 8 little haali media splitter icons have come up where my msn logo it and network connection are! u know? anyway will this cause any probs? all i have is kazaa media codecs installed! thanks for the guide, thanks for pics and taking the time!