2 Replies Latest reply: Mar 1, 2013 8:30 AM by KJSTech RSS

    Can I add codecs to Adobe Media Converter?

    KJSTech Community Member

      I have two marketing professionals who from time to time have to convert media that a third party sends us to a format we can post on our internal intranet site.  Being a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7, the most common format that will play in browser is WMV.  One person can convert to WMV and a whole boatload of other formats are also available in the format column.  Another person only has a few things in their format column like FLV and MPEG4.  We tried the MPEG4 option and we copied the file to our intranet webserver and followed code guidelines here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_videos.asp but Windows XP clients using IE7 or 8 cannot playback the file.  The only thing that seems to work for IE7/8 XP users is using this mess of code here: http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/windows-media/streaming/embed.html  and ensuring that the video file is in WMV format.

       

      So basically we need to add a way for the other person to get all the additional formats... really just the WMV format.  The origninal file is a mov file and can be well over 100+ MB.  The WMV file is about 20-30 MB and on a LAN is is much better than 100+ mb.  Plus WMV just natively works without installing additional software on 100+ employees machines.

       

      Thank you for your help.

       

      Adobe CS5.

        • 1. Re: Can I add codecs to Adobe Media Converter?
          Mylenium CommunityMVP

          CoDecs are handled at the system level. This has nothing to do with Adobe. If WMV is not avialable, it means the Windows Media Components are too old a version or something is blocking access, which could be your own overzealous group policies or otehr limitations on user privileges...

           

          Mylenium

          • 2. Re: Can I add codecs to Adobe Media Converter?
            KJSTech Community Member

            We ended up purchasing a program for $35 to convert the video.

             

            Seems like the Adobe Creative suite includes Media Encoder, but only the most advanced CS suite with Premier adds all the codecs to Media encoder.  First I did try adding things like sharks windows xp codec pack and others.  While that allows playback of various h.264, x.264, mkv and other file formats, it does not add anything like wmv to Adobe Media Encoder.

             

            $35 wasn't a bad price compared to Adobe Premier which would be a waste to spend money on something they just need to convert - not produce video.