WME Assistant (WMEA) -- a fast, easy, batch windows media encoder

what's mean "trial download" and "You can get your registration code file from email after the payment is completed to activate unlimited version of WMEA." Is payware the product ? what is the restriction of trial download ? BHH

Sorry about that, the free version has been removed several days ago :-) trial version has two limited aspects : one file you can add to the encoding list each time and the max length of WMV/ WMA files created by trial version is 10 minutes.

49$ USD ??? What the heck ? oO I'll indeed try it and evaluate it, but considering that MS provides an encoding solution for free (not top notch for sure, but still, It works ...) I find that just a bit ... greedy ? I'm not expert in the legal grounds but bundling free filters in a payware application isn't neat at all either :/ Edit: I can't try it at work since WM11 needs SP2 ... lol, what a pitty (not your fault though ;))

DarkZell666 Well, I removed the filters and repacked setup package yesterday. This tool is only a *encoder* tool that use MS XXX SDK, likes the others. But it doesn't mean the others tools that use these free SDK have to be free, AFAIK. Right you are. MS provides an encoding solution for free. As i said, is there any other Corp can do an encoding solution for free? This tool not a *decoder* tool. Actually, anyone can use any others *decoders or filters* they like. No need for binding them in this software. Add the buttons in this tool to configure filters options quickly and included them in setup package just because I usually use these filters for decoding job. you can use your favorite tools. These buttons just for easier to use them. If you do something, AutoWMV tool, free, share or commercial, I'll very gald to try it :) -Tchaikovsky

As long as you're willing to distribute the sources as well as the binaries (avisynth at least includes them), and you don't compile them directly into your code, there's no prohibition on including GPL software with commercial packages.

Sorry for the misleading act. It seems I have not make it clear. This tool only use MS SDK for encode and make it easier for use. all the other installing packages included in the setup program just for convenient purpose. In free version or trial version. No need for include them in the setup program and I had already removed them from trail version yesterday. The free version download removed one week ago. I'm not use these installing packages (avisynth, ffdshow, ac3filter) make profits and I can't do that. Anyone who want use them can get them. Even if i'm going to use them in commercial, how can i take advantage of something everyone can get for free?

Avisynth's license specifies that anything can use avisynth.h to communicate with it, even if it's closed source. So that's no issue. If MS were to distribute avisynth, hypothetically, they would have to provide or at least be willing to provide the sources to avisynth on demand. But since they're included in the avisynth installer, that's taken care of. Ac3filter and ffdshow don't include sources, but they are on sourceforge and it wouldn't be hard to bundle with your app. For the most part, distribution of anything from sourceforge without sources is fine, as long as readmes are kept intact, because the sources are always there for the taking by anyone interested, even if the letter of the GPL is a little stricter.

Firstly, thank you for the lessons. Secondly, I had made a note on my blog and DarkZell666 had seen that note, then he posts here to point it out there is some issues. So, I removed these installers (avisynth, ffdshow, ac3filter) form this tool installer and rebuild it yesterday. After that I deleted that note form my blog. This new package does things right?

Really, I'm looking for something like AutoGordian Knot that generates VC1 video.

WME cannot accept AVS files with the audio (say nicac3filter) muxed in audio (video,audio). This is a real shame. ProCoder 2 can do this supposedly but it is $500. So you can use MEGUI to generate a great IVTC script and just dub the audio in with delay, pop into ProCoder, and it works. If only WME would work for the masses - we could all make XBOX360 compliant VC1 streams.