TATE'ing an WMV file

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:55 am

OKay, so it's software, sew me. I want to un-tate a video and put it on my iPod. The converter software I've seen will stretch it out and make it look like shit.

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:40 pm

I feel unqualified to reply as I don't know the exact answer to your inquiry, but my best guess is that you'd need to resize the frame size of the video either before or after you rotate it, essentially letterbox/pillarboxing the video.

I've not used a video iPod before, but I'd probably end up simply rotating the device to view videos in tate... if it was actually acceptable to do so.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:07 am

That's what I want to do, but the video is right now, already in TATE mode. the iPod converters I've tried will want to play it just as it is now, but they will stretch the sides out. It basically resizes it to 320x240 instead of 240x320.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:19 am

I'm not sure but you could check http://doom9.net/

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:21 am

Ohhh, I see now. I'm thinking that I got mixed around somewhere between the topic title and your message.

I'd searched through the forum before and saw that you're familiar with VirtualDub. I haven't used it very much myself, and I'm only throwing this out there, but I found this:

Here is what you need to do (when you have the video loaded into VirtualDub):

Go to Video -> Filters.

Click Add and select Rotate. Press OK.

Now, select the amount you want to rotate it by. Press OK. Press OK again to exit the filters box.

Your video should be rotated and ready to be exported.
A word of caution though: in my research, I found that the rotation will most likely increase file size.

I get the feeling that you've done this already somehow, but, that's the best that I've got right now. I hope that it helps in some way.

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:56 am

Yup, using Virtual Dub, you can rotate and resize it, both using filters, should be able to do what you want...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:41 am

Smithy wrote:Yup, using Virtual Dub, you can rotate and resize it, both using filters, should be able to do what you want...

Won't work w/ WMV.

Post by **Ghegs** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:33 am

What if you convert the file to AVI first and use Virtual Dub afterwards? The appropriately named Replay Converter can do the trick.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:47 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
Smithy wrote:Yup, using Virtual Dub, you can rotate and resize it, both using filters, should be able to do what you want...
Won't work w/ WMV.

It will if you use avisynth to load first. Install avisynth and then create a .avs file with DirectShowSource("whatever.wmv") and then open that .avs in Virtualdub.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:13 pm

WMV is a proprietary Microsoft crap-format. As suggested, get a utility to convert it to mpg4 (divx, xvid) in an AVI-container and then edit it with Virtual Dub.

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:22 pm

zakk wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:
Smithy wrote:Yup, using Virtual Dub, you can rotate and resize it, both using filters, should be able to do what you want...
Won't work w/ WMV.

It will if you use avisynth to load first. Install avisynth and then create a .avs file with DirectShowSource("whatever.wmv") and then open that .avs in Virtualdub.

This is the best way...