I need to convert WMV files (that were created using Cisco's WebEx Recording Editor tool) to h.264. That Recording Editor tool is the only tool that can get stuff out of the native WebEx recording format (.wrf) for saving WebEx meetings which literally nothing else understands. So I'm stuck with that WMV. That WMV has some odd properties. Media Encoder reports the WMV as 1680x1050 (1.0) 5fps, unknown, 8khz, mono.
When I try to convert the WMV to MP4 the video goes black for a long time starting right around a point where the image changed on the screen. I tried lots of different output settings including matching frame rate, and using standard frame rates and CS5.5 and one quick attempt with CS6 and nothing helped.
For what it's worth I tried downloading the trial of Episode 6 and threw it in that and asked for an h264 and it said it didn't have the decoder. But I'm not sure the the trial version of Telestream Episode opens WMVs.
Anyone out there ever resolved this problem or got any ideas for alternate encoders that might cope well with not-quite-compliant WMVs?
--Shayne Weyker