WMV9 Video Codecs

[Norm Sanders]

I'm playing around with my short, trying to get the best compression/size possible, and still staying under 35MB. I looked in the video codecs ... it defaults to WMV 9, but also has "WMV 9 Advanced Profile" and "WMV 9 Image V2" as options.

Any idea what those are, and if they're better?

 

[GenJerDan]

I've never gotten them to work. The render dies after a while. Have you tried them?

 

[smithy]

Isn't there a upgrade to WMA 10?

 

[Norm Sanders]

I've not seen WMA10 yet, and I checked out Microsoft's site to see if there's away to upgrade your codec for rendering ... didn't see one.

I tried the Advanced Profile, and it appeared to give a SLIGHTLY smaller file size, but not much. Quality was good, but I couldn't tell if it was better or not. The Image V2 died pretty quickly in render with an error.