I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find sample video if different type of formats. I need to test a player with several different files. Thanks in advances!
Audio: .wma, .wav, .mp3, .pcm
Video: .asf, .avi, .cpk, .dat, .dvix, .flc, .fli, .flv, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .qt, .ram, .rm, .rmvb, .wmv, .3gp
Try downloading FFmpeg. This is a free tool to convert between almost all popular media formats.
For example if on Windows...
Go to downloads and (under Get Packages) click Windows logo. Then click Windows builds.
This will take you to Zeranoe. Make sure you choose 32/or/64 bit static build to download.
In the downloaded ZIP, Just go into the "ffmpeg" folder and copy the .bat & .txt files and folders to a folder on your C: drive (mine is located at C:\ffmpeg\).
Just run the bat file to start FFmpeg. This will bring up a Command Line window. Here you type your required ffmpeg commands.
Conversion with FFmpeg is easy. Use ffmpeg(to run) + -i (for input) + input filename + output filename. The program (FFmpeg) is intelligent enough to analyse the in/output extensions and use correct codecs for those formats. After a few seconds it generates a new file in the current folder.
Examples :
To convert mysong.mp3 into WMA format : ffmpeg -i mysong.mp3 mysong.wma
To convert myvideo.avi into MP4 format : ffmpeg -i myvideo.avi myvideo.mp4
You see how easy it is? There is a lot of support on the web, just Google "ffmpeg how to XYZ" where XYZ is your request & you'll see someone has asked it before and the solution is out there.
You can find samples of various common and uncommon multimedia formats here - http://samples.mplayerhq.hu
