Custom WM profile - issues with codec

Question

Hello I create my custom WM encoder profile. The reason I need a custom, non standard WM profile is that I need that the video resolution must be the same as input video stream. I created below profile but after I encode my video and audio with it, the WMP while loading says that the WMV1 codec is not found and prompts me for downloading WM encoder codecs. After installing them, the problem still exists.

<profile version="589824" 
             storageformat="1" 
             name="mReplay Hi-End profile; WM Format 9; Audio &amp; 
Video" 
             description="Streams: 1 audio 1 video"> 
                   <streamconfig 
majortype="{73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   streamnumber="1" 
                   streamname="Audio Stream" 
                   inputname="Audio409" 
                   bitrate="320008" 
                   bufferwindow="-1" 
                   reliabletransport="0" 
                   decodercomplexity="" 
                   rfc1766langid="en-us" 
 > 
             <wmmediatype 
subtype="{00000161-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   bfixedsizesamples="1" 
                   btemporalcompression="0" 
                   lsamplesize="14861"> 
           <waveformatex wFormatTag="353" 
                         nChannels="2" 
                         nSamplesPerSec="44100" 
                         nAvgBytesPerSec="40001" 
                         nBlockAlign="14861" 
                         wBitsPerSample="16" 
                         codecdata="008800000F0035E80000"/> 
            </wmmediatype> 
            </streamconfig> 
                   <streamconfig 
majortype="{73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   streamnumber="2" 
                   streamname="Video Stream" 
                   inputname="Video409" 
                   bitrate="100000" 
                   bufferwindow="-1" 
                   reliabletransport="0" 
                   decodercomplexity="AU" 
                   rfc1766langid="en-us" 
                           vbrenabled="1" 
                           vbrquality="95" 
                           bitratemax="0" 
                           bufferwindowmax="0"> 
                     <videomediaprops maxkeyframespacing="80000000" 
                                     quality="100"/> 
             <wmmediatype 
subtype="{31564D57-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}" 
                   bfixedsizesamples="0" 
                   btemporalcompression="1" 
                   lsamplesize="0"> 
       <videoinfoheader dwbitrate="100000" 
                        dwbiterrorrate="0" 
                        avgtimeperframe="400000"> 
        <rcsource left="0" 
                  top="0" 
                  right="0" 
                  bottom="0"/> 
        <rctarget left="0" 
                  top="0" 
                  right="0" 
                  bottom="0"/> 
            <bitmapinfoheader biwidth="0" 
                              biheight="0" 
                              biplanes="1" 
                              bibitcount="24" 
                              bicompression="WMV1" 
                              bisizeimage="0" 
                              bixpelspermeter="0" 
                              biypelspermeter="0" 
                              biclrused="0" 
                              biclrimportant="0"/> 
       </videoinfoheader> 
            </wmmediatype> 
            </streamconfig> 
     <streamprioritization> 
      <stream number="1" mandatory="0"/> 
      <stream number="2" mandatory="0"/> 
     </streamprioritization> 
</profile>

Answer 1

That guid for your media subtype is incorrect: 31564D57-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71 is Windows Media 7 (aka WMV1).

Install Windows Media Encoder 9. It comes with a profile editor, so all you have to do is double click on the .prx file, or load it up and create a new profile.

Answer 2

the ability to handle 0,0,0,0 (or any other video size) depends on the encoding. WMV7 and WMV9 should support it though. Use WME9 to export a profile that has "same as input" checked in video options and compare it to your profile..

Answer 3

Hi, Not sure if this thread is still goin but Im having the same problem on my dads computer. I tried to publish a movie in Windows Live Movie Maker but all the profiles returned an error asking to select another profile. WMPE says an audio codec is not installed but Ive re-installed WLMM & WME9, and also installed the k-lite 5.9 codec pack but still no solution. WMP11 works fine, it opens WMV files that use WMA9.2 & WMV9. The strange thing is my PC works fine and were both using Windows Vista 32 and dads comp is quite healthy so dont thinks its a virus. The WMADMOD.DLL registers ok. Thinking maybe a missing registry entry, or missing dll??? Dads been compiling slideshow movies for his blog but this only happened at the last few vids. weird.... any ideas?... thanks. -anthony