Muxing WMV/WMA encoded content

Hello all. I'm currently working on compressing some of my HD-DVD and BD backups to WMV9 advanced, and the process has taken a pretty weird trail. Thanks to the new Haali splitter, I've been able to use Graphedit to reliably render the streams out of the BD backup of X3, and I used AVISynth, virtualdub, and graphedit to export the video to raw AVI (the file is fscking HUGE) and a 6 channel AC3 file. I'm currently converting the video to WVC1 using Windows Media Encoder with the VBR Peak setting, and once its done I'll have a video only WMV that is (hopefully) an appropriate size, and then I plan to convert the AC3 file to 6 channel WMA using WME to end up with a WMA. Now, aside from methods to improve my (probably) weird way of going about this encode, how do i mux the finished WMA and WMV into a single container? I couldn't find an option for it in the encoder app. Can I mux it into a matroska container? Is there another app or setting that I'm unaware of? Any help would be appreciated.. also, if anyone knows of any guides that might be available on converting to WMV advanced, would you be able to point me in that direction? Also, is there a "Target file size" option for encoding? I've kinda guessed at the appropriate bitrates, and I have a feeling it's gonna bite me in the ass :P Thanks.

in Graphedit, try the ASF writer filter. When I wanted to convert a h.264/AC3 .ts to WMV-HD, I ended up repacking the .ts into a .mkv in graphedit, and then fed the .mkv into WMEncoder, Constant Q=95. I couldn't get 2-pass to work correctly, probably a filter issue. p.

Zambelli, you are incredibly well informed. My hat is off to you. 32 hours later (FFS!), the 2 pass video encode is finally finished. My issues with the output video appearing washed out in WME during the encoding process are gone now, probably because this time the output video is coming through the video overlay when i play it now. And let me tell you, weighing in just a few megs shy of 6 gigs this converted video is almost identical compared to the original. I truly think this is novel. I have taken full high definition progressive scan content that was originally distributed on a next-gen storage format cause it's so damned huge, and with virtually no quality loss, it'll fit on a DVD9 with room to spare. I mean, several years ago I thought DivX was amazing because it could put a feature length film onto a CD with good quality, but being an honest videophile, 700 meg DVD rips look awful. VC-1 allows Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to be compressed by a similar factor (this film comes out at about 1/3 of original size) with virtually no quality loss. I seriously look forward to what is to come. This has been one hell of an experience so far, and your guys' help has been fantastic. Now it's time to force feed WME some AC3 audio, which it doesn't seem to like... I think I'll be tooling around with that VBScript for a little while. Thanks again everyone.

I have a file that is an avi container with wmv video and ac3 audio. Stream Editor won't let me use this file to remux the wmv video with my seperate, re-encoded wma audio. Virtualdub won't let me demux it or remux it either. What can I use to put the unaltered video together with my new audio?

hmm how can change this afterwards? in help -> example pic its both tagged english tho :mad: