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stormstereo wrote on 8/19/2004, 1:43 PM
If I understand you correctly you are trying to have multiple streams of audio in a single WMV file. I've never seen this myself so I don't think it can be made. How are the end users supposed to select which audio stream to hear? I think this is only possible when authoring DVDs. I might be wrong though.

Vegas can render 2-pass CBR but as you have noticed there is no choice for 2-pass VBR. My tip is to experiment with the different methods of VBR and decide which one you like the most.

Best/Tommy
RBartlett wrote on 8/19/2004, 11:42 PM
For the full scope of WMV9 (or WMV7/8 for that matter) most folks would go to the free M$ WMEncoder package.

Either render out your project in the same format as your source, or use debugmode's (Satish's) frameserver (AV) plug-in which. The frameserver saves the hard disc space and delivers uncompressed frames to WME which can make the process more stable too, even with Vegas' non-YUV pipeline.

Metadata can be changed and with care, multichannel audio can be applied (XP required for playback of WMV 5.1). However you do need to check for regionalisation/locale hints if you plan on a single piece of media to serve many languages played automatically in native format.

You'll also get 2-pass VBR.

Sony are giving you the best access to writing WMV that they can. M$, though great friends of Sony/SoFo, still like to keep the best parts of the "unpublished SDK" to themselves. The same is true for other NLEs. WME remains the best way to create WMV. Even editing WMV is only possible when an NLE manufacturer pays up to our friends at M$.

I'm not sure if AVI with the media9 codec fairs any better, but this may not truly stream from your server/provider (other than TCP's native definition "streaming" within the Internet Protocol, IP).
akg wrote on 8/20/2004, 5:54 AM
Thankx
And anybody knows which software can rander 2-pass VBR WMV file !!!
stormstereo wrote on 8/20/2004, 9:23 AM
Yes, as RBartlett wrote you can download the WME. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Best/Tommy
akg wrote on 8/20/2004, 9:41 AM
Really Thankx
But How setting ???
bStro wrote on 8/20/2004, 12:00 PM
Curious where you've seen / heard a WMV with multiple audio tracks... ?

Rob
stormstereo wrote on 8/20/2004, 6:21 PM
Ooooh, the settings... Cant' answer you on that. You have to experiment with the settings to make the video look the way YOU want. It's all up to you. Do you want people to download it quicker, then you have to make a smaller file. In other words; compress it harder.
If you want to keep the quality higher then compress it lighter. But you will end up with a bigger file that will take longer time to download. If you want it to stream to a viewers media player then you have to decide what audience you want to reach. The ones on modem connection or the ones with faster connections.
Just experiment with the WME settings and play around until you find the best quality/file size for YOU.

Best/Tommy