recapture asf

[murphf]

I have a "bad" asf file that I captured from a streamed video of the internet. It wont open in any editor. It does, however, play flawlesly in Windows media player.

I was wondering: would it be possible to "send" the asf stream to myself (of my hard disk) and just recapture the stream again (on my hard disk), but with a better program?

[MrMungus]

Did you try ASFTools?

[au7usa]

TMPGEnc will usually open ASF files as well.

You can even try VirtualDub ASF?

If you still want to send the file to yourself the IP address should be:
http://127.0.0.1/

[murphf]

Yup, I did try asftools and TPMGenc and different versions of virtual dub. The file just wont open in them.

I wanted to cut off the beginning and end of it, but it woudnt work.

In asftools I had to use the "lost chunks" function to be able to load the file in windows movie maker. But the audio was then screwed up.

I managed to exctract the audio seperately, and import that into movie maker as well. I lined it up, but after exporting the file to WMV it was progressively out of sync - in the beginning all was OK, but as time passed the sync got worse - while sync was alright in movie maker.

Thats why I thought recapturing might be my best option.

BTW, it is so weird that windows media player has no problem with the asf file, while all editors I tried do. You would expect that if it plays, it can be edited as well.

Which URL should I insert in the capturing program? The one mentioned above with the corrct path to the file?

Anyway, thanks for the advice.

[MrMungus]

Have you tried opening it in Windows Media Encoder and selecting to re-encode the file?

[murphf]

Yes, WME crashes just after it starts encoding.[/quote]