Making a WMV file into ISO image

sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
edited May 2009 in Science & Tech
What is the easiest way to make a WMV (Windows Media Video) into an ISO Image file?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    They are two totally seperate things.

    An ISO is a disk image. If you put a WMV file on a CD and then create an ISO out of it, then you've done it, although I don't think that's what you are going for....

    What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    ok i've got some WMV files that i essentially want to burn to DVDs. When I put those WMV files in Nero and burn it that way, it takes 3 hours. When I have just ISO files of a movie, it doesnt take very long at all to burn. So I was wondering if there was a way to quickly make those WMV files into ISOs so it wouldnt take as long to burn.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    No, there isn't.

    Judging by your computer speed, it'd take you about 6-8 hours to successfully convert the WMV to MPEG2-DVD, and burn it (That is if you want decent quality; nero doesn't provide that).

    When you have an ISO of the movie, it's quick, because it's already in DVD format.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited June 2005
    ok. but nero is good quality - every time i do the 3hour method of burning WMV files, it turns out DVD quality.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2005
    I guarantee you that it's not as good as its alternatives.

    1 click convert and burn options have always been miserable. Nero is no different.
  • TrevTrev California
    edited May 2009
    Thrax, Ive used nero many times to convert wmv to a dvd and agree that nero does not produce a great quality video. You mentioned some alternative ways to burn a dvd with better quality. Could you give me some info on how to do that? Time is not an issue for me.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2009
    You can't get better quality then the source. WMV's are usually lower quality then what you could consider as DVD quality. So turning a WMV into a DVD it's going to make it better and if you are trying to scale up the resolution at all or in any other way alter it or compress it it's always going to look worse.
  • SoundySoundy Pitt Meadows, BC
    edited May 2009
    Holy ancient thread revival, Batman!
  • TrevTrev California
    edited May 2009
    kryyst wrote:
    You can't get better quality then the source. WMV's are usually lower quality then what you could consider as DVD quality. So turning a WMV into a DVD it's going to make it better and if you are trying to scale up the resolution at all or in any other way alter it or compress it it's always going to look worse.

    Yeah. Sadly you are right. Im just looking for something better quality than nero.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2009
    There's nothing wrong with nero. Nero is really good actually. While the software has gotten a little feature bloated over the years, it's still extremely powerful and good at what it does. You aren't going to find any other program to make the process faster. It's simple case of it takes time to crunch numbers to render a video stream into dvd format.
  • SoundySoundy Pitt Meadows, BC
    edited May 2009
    ^Agreed... no matter what program you use, the higher the quality conversion you want, the more time it's going to take to convert it. Nero, like most programs of this type, has myriad options for adjusting the conversion quality vs. time ratio, with the defaults set somewhere in the middle. You can play with those options to get a faster conversion, but regardless of what program you use, you'll lose quality doing that.

    There may be other programs that will improve the time vs. quality ratio slightly over Nero, but in the end it just comes down to number-crunching, and your hardware will be the determining factor.

    Something else to consider: if your original is really long (like a movie), you also have to balance size vs. quality. A 4.7GB DVD by design holds 60 minutes of MPEG-2 video at maximum quality. By reducing the quality (ie. higher compression) you can cram on anywhere up to 6 hours of video. If you're trying to fit two or three movies on a single disc, or several episodes of a TV show or something, it will have to use a higher level of compression, and thus reduce your quality further. That, again, is true of any program you use to do the job.
  • TrevTrev California
    edited May 2009
    OK I will just continue using nero and play with the settings. Thanks for your help guys
  • SoundySoundy Pitt Meadows, BC
    edited May 2009
    When you're in the Project window in NeroVision, click the "More>>" button at the bottom-left, then go to "Video Options". The two tabs there will give you all the settings for adjusting encoding quality.
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