VLC HowTo/Play on Zune

2007-03-22T12:31:12Z

RyJones: added working cmd file example, replaced broken example

{{howto|Make your Video Files playable on a Zune}}

To play on this device, the file you copy to it needs to be of the correct format. This format is summarized below:
{|
| Video Codec
| '''wmv2''' ([[WMV]]), '''wmv3''' ([[WMV]])
|-
| Audio Codec
| '''wma''' ([[wma]])
|-
| [[Container]]
| '''avi''' ([[AVI]]), '''asf''' ([[ASF]])
|-
| Size
| 320x240
|}

To make the video the correct size, you can edit the [[preferences]], or run vlc from a [[command prompt]].

== CLI Example ==
This is based on the cmd file from [[iPod]]. Don't forget to point %outdir% to your target directory. This will handle drag-and-drop batch conversion.

@REM Remove the quotes from %1 variable for vlc paramters
@SET infile=%1
@SET infile=%infile:"=%
@REM Strip directory paths from %1 ...
@FOR /F "delims=" %%i in ("%infile%") do SET filename=%%~ni
@SET outdir=e:\transcodes\
@SET outfile=%outdir%%filename%.wmv
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv "%infile%" :sout="#transcode{width=320, canvas-height=240, vcodec=WMV3, vb=768, acodec=mp3, ab=96, channels=2}:standard{access=file,mux=asf,url=%outfile%}" vlc:quit

''You have to attach the two last lines, there are separated for presentation purpose''

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