What settings are used in Vista's movie maker's "publish movie" options

[George]

I really want Vista's Movie Maker (I realize this is the
windowsxp.moviemaker group, but I didn't see one for Vista moviemaker) to be
able to do batch encodes, as I have a lot of .mpg's to encode, but I've not
been able to figure out a way to get it to do a batch, if it's even
possible. Having said that, I really like the quality I get when I publish
a movie, select "More Settings" and choose "Windows Media DVD Quality (3.0
Mbps). When I select that I see the following "Movie Settings":

Bit rate: 3.0 Mbps
Display size 720x480 pixels
Aspect ration 4:3
Frames per second: 30


As I mention above, this produces a quality level I'm happy with, and it's
pretty fast, but I can't batch. I've tried to replicate these settings in a
..prx file and use it in the Windows Media batch encoder...and while it
produces movies of the same quality, and I can batch, it's at least 2-4
times slower doing it than Movie Maker. I'm trying to get the best of all
worlds and get the quality, speed, and batch ability. Below are the
settings I'm using in my .prx file. Does someone know of a setting below I
can use to make my batch encodes faster, does someone know of a way to batch
in Movie Maker, or is there some better way to accomplish all 3 of my
objectives?

Thanks

------------------------
profile version="589824"
storageformat="1"
name="Full screen video (CBR)"
description="
">
<streamconfig
majortype="{73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"
streamnumber="1"
streamname="Audio Stream"
inputname="Audio409"
bitrate="128040"
bufferwindow="5000"
reliabletransport="0"
decodercomplexity=""
rfc1766langid="en-us"<wmmediatype subtype="{00000161-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"
bfixedsizesamples="1"
btemporalcompression="0"
lsamplesize="2973">
<waveformatex wFormatTag="353"
nChannels="2"
nSamplesPerSec="44100"
nAvgBytesPerSec="16005"
nBlockAlign="2973"
wBitsPerSample="16"
codecdata="008800000F0000000000"/>
</wmmediatype>
</streamconfig>
<streamconfig
majortype="{73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"
streamnumber="2"
streamname="Video Stream"
inputname="Video409"
bitrate="2991000"
bufferwindow="5000"
reliabletransport="0"
decodercomplexity="AU"
rfc1766langid="en-us"<videomediaprops maxkeyframespacing="30000000"
quality="100"/>
<wmmediatype subtype="{33564D57-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}"
bfixedsizesamples="0"
btemporalcompression="1"
lsamplesize="0">
<videoinfoheader dwbitrate="2991000"
dwbiterrorrate="0"
avgtimeperframe="333667">
<rcsource left="0"
top="0"
right="0"
bottom="0"/>
<rctarget left="0"
top="0"
right="0"
bottom="0"/>
<bitmapinfoheader biwidth="0"
biheight="0"
biplanes="1"
bibitcount="24"
bicompression="WMV3"
bisizeimage="0"
bixpelspermeter="0"
biypelspermeter="0"
biclrused="0"
biclrimportant="0"/>
</videoinfoheader>
</wmmediatype>
</streamconfig>
</profile>

 

[PapaJohn]

Another option is the new Expression Media Encoder which can do a batch
conversion. See my website's Expression > Expression Media Encoder page...
it takes custom profiles and I find it pretty fast.

One limitation is it only uses the new VC1 codec to compress the WMV
files...

No, you can't setup a batch process and use Movie Maker as the conversion
engine.