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Creating and editing profiles

With the Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility, there are two ways to create your own profiles. First, you can specify each of the options that you want to use on the command line. For example, you could use the –v_bitrate, -v_codec, -v_width, -v_height, -v_framerate, and -v_keydist options to specify the settings for encoding your content. You could also create a configuration file that contains all of the options you want to use, and then use the configuration file as your input source.

Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility does not enable you to edit system profiles. Rather, if you are using a system profile and want to change some of its settings, you can use command-line options to override the settings in the profile. For example, if you use the av700 profile, which has an image quality setting of 75, and you want the image quality setting to be 100, then you would specify that with the –v_quality option. Here is what the command would look like:

wm8eutil –input myfile.avi –output myfile.wmv –profile av700 –v_quality 100 

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