I often downsample movies in games that use BINK codec in order to fit them on my harddrive. Converting BIK to 30% of the regular quality and changing audio to mono does not affect the quality that much but some games drops to half its size when doing so (i,e advent rising). So i have researched the internet for a tool that downsamples XMV but had no luck. Ive found some tutorials but they dont provide a simple solution like drag and drop or easy batch converting a folder of xmv files. Does anyone know a simple way to do so? I also look for tools that downsamples xmb files as they often contain uncompressed WAV pcm files.
Yup. And if you look at how long it takes, how much you make per hour, and how cheap hard drives are, you'll probably find it's easier to simply buy a bigger HDD. Downsampling was useful back when everyone still played off optical media, DVD-Rs where expensive and downsampling allowed you to use a CD-R instead (or a single-layered DVD-R instead of a DL one), but nowadays - not so much.
Unless you write a batch script to do everything, it might make things quicker. Only bad thing is, that takes time too :/
If I could program or script. You'd see a lot of software like this, sadly I'm too stupid for it all :|
Lemme give you a possible starting point. Assuming you have commandline de- and encoders (you'll have to adapt "decoder_app"/"encoder_app" and their arguments to your needs): POSIX shell (e.g. bash): You end up with reencoded files that are named exactly like the original ones, and the originals renamed to (...).bak. Windows' "DOS prompt" needs two iterations, one for xmv->wmv and one back from wmv to xmv: You end up with reencoded files that are named like the original ones buth with an appended (...).wmv.xmv, so you'll still have to rename them. If all you have is GUI tools, well, too bad.
