Converting Windows Media Recordings to Divx

[Alienwho]

I'm in the process of perfecting my HTPC situation. It seems like an hour long recording using MCE is about 5 gigs. I found a program called MCEBuddy that seems to be able to convert the .wtv file into pretty much whatever you want. I would prefer to use MCE to record the files, then convert it into divx and import it into boxee with all my other content and just watch it from there.

I'm trying it out right now and it looks like you can't choose specific files to convert, just the directory and it will convert all files in the directory. This is kind of annoying.

Also I'm at work right now but have been logging into my computer periodically to see how it's doing. Well for some reason it seems to be deleting the file it just converted right as it begins to convert another file. I don't know what happened to the file it just straight up disappeared.

What do you guys use for this?

 

[alyarb]

handbrake, automkv

 

[Alienwho]

Yeah unfortunately neither of those converts .wtv that WMC records.

But apparently I can convert to dvr-ms then use handbrake.

 

[mmntech]

.wtv is a proprietary format, and it's that way for a reason. To prevent you from format shifting. MCEBuddy seems like it will do the job you want and it's free. Looks like it can convert to MP4 AVC. It's said to be a better codec than DivX and it's more widely supported.

 

[Alienwho]

Yeah I was wondering if the mp4 is the way to go. The file size seems a little bit smaller, and the mp4 still looks brilliant in vlc. When I run the mp4 in boxee, however, it looks terrible. And converting them to run in boxee is kind of the point. I'll try converting the same file into divx and see if it runs better in boxee.