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From: Steve Firth on 27 Dec 2009 19:37
Lynn W <lynn.williamson(a)FOREVERREDbtinternet.com> wrote:

> The only disappointing bit is that one of them was one that was using Flip
> 4 Mac to view the wmv file and on exporting it has put a watermark on it
> for Flip 4

Perian should solve that problem.
From: Mark on 28 Dec 2009 05:23
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:20:47 +0000, Steve Firth wrote
(in article <1jbeqaa.1r5km4x77rjd2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>):

> Lynn W <lynn.williamson(a)FOREVERREDbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Convert them to MP4 video first.
>> Tried to do that using Handbrake but it says its not a valid source?
>
> I've just tried it using Handbrake (Versions 0.9.3 and 0.9.4) and a
> selection of WMV and AVI files. It works fine for me using H264 encoding
> (the default). I suspect that you need to install Perian in order to
> enable Handbrake to decode the WMV file.
>
> FWIW, the encoding reduced the size of the WMV file from 58Mb to 30Mb
> which seems worthwhile if you're getting it onto an iPod.

The (now deceased) VisualHub is excellent for this (I just used it again last
night to convert 5 TV episodes from .avi to .mp4 & add them to iTunes all in
one go). If you're lucky you might find it floating around the internet (I
found a link here:
http://boards.ign.com/mac_general_board/b5146/185253476/p1/)

Otherwise, Video Monkey (free) borrows from/builds on Visual Hub:
http://videomonkey.org/Video_Monkey/About.html

Cheers ... Mark

From: Steve Firth on 28 Dec 2009 06:21
Mark <captain.black(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> The (now deceased) VisualHub is excellent for this (I just used it again last
> night to convert 5 TV episodes from .avi to .mp4 & add them to iTunes all in
> one go).

Hawkeye will also do the job but is payware and severely limits the
options available for conversion.
From: Lynn W on 28 Dec 2009 09:06
On 28/12/09 00:20, in article 1jbeqaa.1r5km4x77rjd2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk,
"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> Lynn W <lynn.williamson(a)FOREVERREDbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Convert them to MP4 video first.
>> Tried to do that using Handbrake but it says its not a valid source?
>
> I've just tried it using Handbrake (Versions 0.9.3 and 0.9.4) and a
> selection of WMV and AVI files. It works fine for me using H264 encoding
> (the default). I suspect that you need to install Perian in order to
> enable Handbrake to decode the WMV file.
>
> FWIW, the encoding reduced the size of the WMV file from 58Mb to 30Mb
> which seems worthwhile if you're getting it onto an iPod.
My version is 0.9.1 so perhaps I need to update :-)

From: Lynn W on 28 Dec 2009 09:35
On 28/12/09 00:20, in article 1jbeqaa.1r5km4x77rjd2N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk,
"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> Lynn W <lynn.williamson(a)FOREVERREDbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>> Convert them to MP4 video first.
>> Tried to do that using Handbrake but it says its not a valid source?
>
> I've just tried it using Handbrake (Versions 0.9.3 and 0.9.4) and a
> selection of WMV and AVI files. It works fine for me using H264 encoding
> (the default). I suspect that you need to install Perian in order to
> enable Handbrake to decode the WMV file.
>
> FWIW, the encoding reduced the size of the WMV file from 58Mb to 30Mb
> which seems worthwhile if you're getting it onto an iPod.

Ive just downloaded Perian but Handbrake still won't do it. I thought
Quicktime would have done it as it played in Quicktime but when I went to
export it still came up with the Flip4Mac message and put the watermark on.
Lynn

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