Windows media video quality and conversion question

This is basically a 2 part question and an help would be appreciated.

It seems I have a lot of these .wmv files accumulating most are 25-50 megs a
piece and each movie is split into 5-6 files,
and a lot are from one source and claim to be full screen quality. Needless
to say they are not that great
quality and especially towards the end of each clip the quality really gets
blocky and goes down hill. I want to combine these as one entire movie
instead of the current multi clip state which is a pain in the neck to keep
them organized. Is there a program (i.e Tpmpec tsunami encoder etc..) that
will combine them without losing too much quality and/or enhancing the
quality?? Also I might be interested in burning them to a DVD later on.



Also it seems as though these clips look a tad better when viewed in real
player (of all the progs go figure) versus WMP 10 or Power DVD 6. Is there
any other program out there I can use to view these files and make playlists
that will display them in the best quality possible? Will a faster more
advanced video card like the new NVIDIA 7800 cards help with he visual
quality of these files or is this just a case of the encoding process that
the clips originally underwent being not so great/ and or rushed and
compressed too badly for bandwidth purposes..

thanks in advance,

ray

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Ray wrote:

>This is basically a 2 part question and an help would be appreciated.
>
>It seems I have a lot of these .wmv files accumulating most are 25-50 megs a
>piece and each movie is split into 5-6 files,
>and a lot are from one source and claim to be full screen quality. Needless
>to say they are not that great
>quality and especially towards the end of each clip the quality really gets
>blocky and goes down hill. I want to combine these as one entire movie
>instead of the current multi clip state which is a pain in the neck to keep
>them organized. Is there a program (i.e Tpmpec tsunami encoder etc..) that
>will combine them without losing too much quality and/or enhancing the
>quality?? Also I might be interested in burning them to a DVD later on.
>
>
>
TMPGEnc has a merge/cut feature in it yes. You can download the regular
or plus versions (I'd grab plus, it handles mpeg2 files better).

>
>Also it seems as though these clips look a tad better when viewed in real
>player (of all the progs go figure) versus WMP 10 or Power DVD 6. Is there
>any other program out there I can use to view these files and make playlists
>that will display them in the best quality possible? Will a faster more
>advanced video card like the new NVIDIA 7800 cards help with he visual
>quality of these files or is this just a case of the encoding process that
>the clips originally underwent being not so great/ and or rushed and
>compressed too badly for bandwidth purposes..
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>ray
>
>
>
I don't use real player, but their software probably applies some
sort of filter to the files before they are played. There's nothing you
can do about the quality you're seeing these files at. The system you
have is well eqiupped to handle this - you could probably play them on a
pentium 333 with a good video display and not notice any difference. If
they were higly compressed then you're going to have to pretty much
settle for the way there are. You could tweak them in TMPGenc, there's
filters you can run on them, like sharpen or soften, changing colour,
gamma, etc. Try grabbing it and fooling around with it, or VirtualDub
too. But you'd have to use version 1.3 because they stop supporting wmv
files because of some legal **** with M$.
Hope this clears things up for you a bit. GO to www.videohelp.com
too they have everything there

Cheers,

jason



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Thanks jason, appreciate the input.

ray

"j b" <> wrote in message
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> Ray wrote:
>
>>This is basically a 2 part question and an help would be appreciated.
>>
>>It seems I have a lot of these .wmv files accumulating most are 25-50 megs
>>a
>>piece and each movie is split into 5-6 files,
>>and a lot are from one source and claim to be full screen quality.
>>Needless
>>to say they are not that great
>>quality and especially towards the end of each clip the quality really
>>gets
>>blocky and goes down hill. I want to combine these as one entire movie
>>instead of the current multi clip state which is a pain in the neck to
>>keep
>>them organized. Is there a program (i.e Tpmpec tsunami encoder etc..) that
>>will combine them without losing too much quality and/or enhancing the
>>quality?? Also I might be interested in burning them to a DVD later on.
>>
>>
> TMPGEnc has a merge/cut feature in it yes. You can download the regular or
> plus versions (I'd grab plus, it handles mpeg2 files better).
>
>>
>>Also it seems as though these clips look a tad better when viewed in real
>>player (of all the progs go figure) versus WMP 10 or Power DVD 6. Is there
>>any other program out there I can use to view these files and make
>>playlists
>>that will display them in the best quality possible? Will a faster more
>>advanced video card like the new NVIDIA 7800 cards help with he visual
>>quality of these files or is this just a case of the encoding process that
>>the clips originally underwent being not so great/ and or rushed and
>>compressed too badly for bandwidth purposes..
>>
>>thanks in advance,
>>
>>ray
>>
>>
> I don't use real player, but their software probably applies some sort
> of filter to the files before they are played. There's nothing you can do
> about the quality you're seeing these files at. The system you have is
> well eqiupped to handle this - you could probably play them on a pentium
> 333 with a good video display and not notice any difference. If they were
> higly compressed then you're going to have to pretty much settle for the
> way there are. You could tweak them in TMPGenc, there's filters you can
> run on them, like sharpen or soften, changing colour, gamma, etc. Try
> grabbing it and fooling around with it, or VirtualDub too. But you'd have
> to use version 1.3 because they stop supporting wmv files because of some
> legal **** with M$.
> Hope this clears things up for you a bit. GO to www.videohelp.com too
> they have everything there
>
> Cheers,
>
> jason
>
>
> --
> ((¯`'·.¸(¯`'·.((¯`'·.¸ * jason bean* ¸.·'´¯))¸.·'´¯)¸.·'´¯))
>
> For me , said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle,"
> and he reached his hand up for it.
>
> Homepage http://home.cogeco.ca/~jabean
> cover songs server http://musicpage.kicks-ass.org/

Ray