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Title:	AVI to (Xbox 360 compatible) WMV Conversion Guide
Description:	This guides shows you how to convert your AVI/DivX/XviD file to a WMV file, with emphasis on Xbox 360 compatibility
Author/Publisher:	DVDGuy
Ease of use:	Beginners
Software Used:	K-Lite Codec Pack, Windows Media Encoder
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Page 3 of 4: Windows Media Encoder - New Session Wizard

Step 2: Windows Media Encoder - New Session Wizard

Start Windows Media Encoder (WME). You will be asked to start a new session - select the "Convert a file" option and click "OK".

The first step of the "New Session Wizard" asks you to load in your input file, and also to specify the location/filename of the output file. Load in your DivX/XviD file here. Press "Next" to continue. WME will now analyze your file, and this could make it look like WME has hanged, but it's really working in the background.

The next step asks you to select an encoding profile. Select the "Windows Media hardware profiles", as this profile will be the one that is most compatible with the Xbox 360. We will get a chance to further tweak the encoder/profile settings later on.

This step asks you to select the encoding options. You can leave the default option as it is, since we will actually create a custom profile later on and not use any of the pre-created ones.

The next step allows you to tag the output WMV file with text information. Do what you want to do here.

Windows Media Encoder: Display Information

We are at the end of the wizard. Deselect the "Begin converting when I click Finish" option, since we still need to configure the encoder settings. Click "Finish" to close the wizard. WME will now again do a bit of work.

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Page 1: Introduction
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i have followed the process, although on my klite mega codec pack, i dont have the "Decode the following video formats with ffdshow" option? continued with the process and once the file has been encoded, the new .wmv file is only 2 seconds long? have i missed something? and has anyone else had this problem? thanks

I was using Blaze Media Pro to convert avi files to wmv so I could stream them to my Xbox 360 but found that on most output files there was a two second audio/video sync problem. Very frustrating!.. This has solved the issue completely so I am delighted! Many thanks indeed!

This is Great, I knew nothing about decoding and haven't had any recent experience with video files. However, with this document, that I find my self refering to alot now, is a great, quick tourial for doing just that. Thank you to whom took the time to put this up. - Burnt Network Engineer kaorking

Great post, I have recently bought XBOX 360 and in the middle of giving it a try. I also played a little with the windows media encoder and found out that they have a command line tool, so if you have the entire season of let's say friends or 24, and you would like to convert it to wmv, you can do it in a batch mode. After you have exported your profile you should do something like: 1. open cmd.exe 2. Go to %programfiles%\Windows Media Components\Encoder 3. type 'cscript.exe wmcmd.vbs –input c:\friends_season1folderAVI -output c:\friends_season1folderWMV -loadprofile myprofile

I have followed this to the bone. However I keep getting an AUDIO CODEC error. what may I do to precent this?

faibs: You need to use gspot or mediainfo on your input file to see what kind of audio codec it uses, and then search google to download/install the audio codec

i have a movie in 2 parts ie 2 avi files, there are also 2 .srt files with the english subtitles. can i still use this method?

i was able to get this to work about 3 weeks ago. i reinstalled windows xp though and now there is a syncing problem with the audio and video after the second pass. with the final wmv file, the audio will start playing from the beginning, but the first 8 minutes of the video doesn't show up. my wmv file ends up 8 minutes shorter than what it should be. does anyone know how i might be able to fix this?