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05-11-2008, 05:07 PM

Phillip Dyson Mystic Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,520		MPEG Files on the Zune? I just got Portishead's new "Third" Album for my birthday. The version I got actually came with 2 LPs and a USB drive shaped like a P. Very cool. The USB drive came with several MPEG videos. I copied them to my video folder, but (in a sub folder) but the Zune desktop doesn't seem to see them. The music files were pulled in with no problem from the music folder. Is the Zune supposed to recognize MPEG, or do I need to convert them? __________________ Phone: Nexus one Backup Phone: AT&T Samsung Jack; Future Phone: I'm Watching WP7; Media Player: Platinum Zune HD 32GB; Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Console: XBox 360, PS3, Wii

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05-11-2008, 05:23 PM

ionen Pupil Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 32		As I've previously said I don't own a Zune. But this is a community and I'd like to help you as much as I can. So I've done some research and this is what I've found: Zune currently works with: WMA, MP3, AAC for audio, WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 for video and JPEG for pictures. So you'll have to convert it Zamzar it's an online free tool for doing that

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05-12-2008, 04:00 AM

Phillip Dyson Mystic Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,520		Thanks for ionen. This tools looks very useful. Unfortunately my smallest file is 133MB. __________________ Phone: Nexus one Backup Phone: AT&T Samsung Jack; Future Phone: I'm Watching WP7; Media Player: Platinum Zune HD 32GB; Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Console: XBox 360, PS3, Wii

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05-12-2008, 06:26 AM

ionen Pupil Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 32		This free app should help you convert any audio or video file of no matter what size - MediaCoder

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05-14-2008, 07:13 PM

Phillip Dyson Mystic Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,520		Thanks. I'm giving Super by Erightsoft a try. __________________ Phone: Nexus one Backup Phone: AT&T Samsung Jack; Future Phone: I'm Watching WP7; Media Player: Platinum Zune HD 32GB; Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Console: XBox 360, PS3, Wii

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05-14-2008, 07:25 PM

onlydarksets Oracle Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 853		The Zune requires WMV3, and there is no open-source WMV3 encoder, so neither of those tools will create a WMV file that can be directly synced to the Zune - the Zune software will have to convert them first. If you want to use WMV and convert them only once, then download Windows Media Encoder - it's free, and it supports WMV3 (a/k/a WMV 9). However, those will both work for MP4/H.264, which can be synced directly without conversion.

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05-14-2008, 07:31 PM

Phillip Dyson Mystic Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,520		I've decided to convert them from MPG to MPEG4. __________________ Phone: Nexus one Backup Phone: AT&T Samsung Jack; Future Phone: I'm Watching WP7; Media Player: Platinum Zune HD 32GB; Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Console: XBox 360, PS3, Wii

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05-16-2008, 06:56 AM

Jason Dunn Executive Editor Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 29,135		Looks like you got this problem solved, but next time you could also try loading it into Windows Movie Maker and generate a WMV file from that. __________________ Want to contact me personally? Use this. Want to read my personal blog? Check it out. Want to follow me on Twitter? Here you go.

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05-18-2008, 01:39 AM

Phillip Dyson

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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Looks like you got this problem solved, but next time you could also try loading it into Windows Movie Maker and generate a WMV file from that.

Thanks Jason. I'll keep that in mind.

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Phone: Nexus one Backup Phone: AT&T Samsung Jack; Future Phone: I'm Watching WP7; Media Player: Platinum Zune HD 32GB; Home Server: HP MediaSmart Server LX195 Console: XBox 360, PS3, Wii

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