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Re: [PLUG] encoding to WMA
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"eva8000 HD media"
Very interesting....never knew appliances like this existed. Most of them have optical output and HDMI, which is nice for my AVR. They seem reasonably priced too. I wonder if they support FLAC or WMA loseless support. Then again, buying another $300 piece of hardware is crazy for my living room :-)
On 1/31/07, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
Don't know your whole setup there but you might check this link...
http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20060321_easy_divx_to_xbox_360_streaming.html
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Mag Gam wrote:
> I think the problem is, there is no way to encode WMA natively on Linux. My
> last resort will be using WINE, or wait for MS to support AVI (their own
> container).
>
>
>
> On 1/31/07, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
> >
> > In Windows I use DVDdecrypt, DVDshrink, and VirtualDub-mpeg2, all
> > freeware, which allow me to make audio copies (video to if you want it) of
> > DVD's in virtually any format you want. Nice for taking audio from music
> > DVD's for your non-video music collection. The VirtualDub also will
> > compress/recompress video/audio to tons of formats including wmv/wma. I
> > just converted an Eric Clapton DVD to WMV but kept the AC3 5.1 audio.
> > Original size was 4.6G VOB after combining and it compressed to 900meg wmv
> > and looks good. I am an audio freak and I can tolerate (slightly) lower
> > quality video but not audio!
> >
> > I am not sure what the xbox360 natively will decode but I know it is more
> > then wmv/wma. Won't it do mp3, aac, m4a? It supports HD so I would not be
> > surprized if it did AC3. It also may do "WMA10 pro" which will compress
> > AC3 and retain channels. At least that is what I read.
> >
> > On this subject... netgear just started shipping the eva8000 HD media
> > center box. You no longer need an xbox for HD media transport. It has many
> > features includng UPNP, so you also do not need (windows) media center to
> > make it work. I use an unslung NSLU2 here as my audio/video server. I have
> > been waiting for a good media extender and the xbox is overkill as I do
> > not play computer games.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Art Alexion wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 00:22, Mag Gam wrote:
> > > > My intention is, I have several movies (divx/xvid), and I would like
> > to
> > > > convert them to WMV (which I can get, but no WMA for audio). I want to
> > do
> > > > this for my xbox360, since it only supports WMV/WMA
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > If you can't figure out how to do it with mencoder, soundkonverter, Perl
> > Audio
> > > Converter or any of the others mentioned, try running dbPowerAmp Music
> > > Converter via wine. It's freeware, but not OS. I have never tried
> > using it
> > > under wine. Download the codecs you need.
> > >
> > > I think its
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
> > >
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