Openshot-qt: Exporting in WMV format?

[cirruss]

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[cirruss]

Please can someone explain how to export a video in WMV format as it doesn't appear to be an option available upon export, even when checking advanced settings?

Any help or URLs to help would be much appreciated.

[RoestVrijStaal]

My apologies for breaking in this issue as a visitor, but @cirruss do you mean the codec or the container?

Why do you want to export a WMV? Nowadays there are better video codecs who compress better while preserving a bigger quality and video containers which have more features and are more supported by other devices.

[DylanC]

@cirruss - I would recommend to export to a different format. @RoestVrijStaal - Visitors are more than welcome to respond to issues. We always have too many issues to handle. :+1:

[cirruss]

Hi! It is for the students who are sitting an AS ICT exam, they are asked
to export as .WMV file format.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:05 PM RoestVrijStaal [e-mail]
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My apologies for breaking in this issue as a visitor, but @cirruss
https://github.com/cirruss do you mean the codec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video or the container
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format?

Why do you want to export a WMV? Nowadays there are better video codecs
who compress better while preserving a bigger quality and video containers
which have more features and are more supported by other devices.

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[DylanC]

@cirruss - I see. Do you have a reason to export to that format? I don't see why ye don't just export to .mp4 format. I guess you could always use a video converter to convert to wmv.

[eisneinechse]

@cirruss In the export window choose Advanced Settings and change the video and audio settings:
Video Settings: Video Format "wmv" ; Video Codec "msmpeg4"
Audio Settings: Audio Codec "wmav2"

Starting with version 2.4.4 you could also make your own custom presets. Like this one. Call it something like format_wmv_msmpeg4.xml and store it in .openshot_qt/presets, then (re)start openshot-qt and you should have a preset for WMV:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE openshot-export-option>
<export-option>
    <type translatable="True">All Formats</type>
    <title translatable="True">WMV</title>
    <videoformat>wmv</videoformat>
    <videocodec>msmpeg4</videocodec>
    <audiocodec>wmav2</audiocodec>
    <audiochannels>2</audiochannels>
    <audiochannellayout>3</audiochannellayout>
    <videobitrate
     low="1 Mb/s"
     med="5 Mb/s"
     high="15 Mb/s"></videobitrate>
    <audiobitrate
     low="96 kb/s"
     med="128 kb/s"
     high="192 kb/s"></audiobitrate>
    <samplerate>48000</samplerate>
</export-option>

[DylanC]

@eisneinechse - Much better suggestion. Thanks. :+1:

[goldenkimucc]

I've noticed that WMV uploads to youtube faster and more reliably