Is there a way to convert .ASF files to other media?

[Four_of_Five]

At the risk of sounding like an ass..... Asf to mpg? for Vcd burning?
Ok, how about joining ass, er, asf together?

[BJ_M]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm

read through this guide ... asf is fine for encoding .. (though it might look like crap)

[Flyin' SV]

I'm trying to do the same thing. I read that guide, BJ_M, but when I try to open the ASF in TMPGEnc, I get "File...can not open, or unsupported".

Based on something else I read, I tried to use VirtualDub 1.3c. Though I can open the file, I get "VideoSourceAVI [ICDecompress] error: unspecified error (-100)".

I've tried several versions of mpg4c32.dll, all with the same results.

These are ASFs that I paid for from a popular website, and I was trying to make a personal VCD for backup, in case the ASFs I have on CD already would someday be rendered un-viewable due to newer versions of CODECS, or some other reason.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

[rhegedus]

http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/

[Flyin' SV]

I tried that, here is info from the log:

Opening C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Desktop\WG\autochef_wmp_700.asf
Header Obj ID OK
Data Obj ID OK
located: File property Obj
located: Audio Stream Obj, Stream #32769
located: Video Stream Obj, Stream #32770
Number of Chunks: 1117
Pass 1, Analyzing...
Found 1117 Chunks
Pass 2, Converting...
Chunks Discarded:0
Chunks Converted:1117
Frame rate set to:30.30303
Error: No video frame found on this stream: #32770
File Closed.

This file required a password before I could view it in WMP. I bought access, so I'm legal, I was just hoping to preserve these files via VCD. Am I out of luck?

[secretagent]

change .asf extension to .wmv and oopen in Stoik video converter www.stoik.com
or open in windows moviemaker and save as a new file

[Flyin' SV]

thanks for the suggestion, and I downloaded the s/w from stoik.com, but I get the error "cannot open file" on the renamed wmv, which, incidentally, still plays in WMP.

Opening the wmv in TMPGEnc gets the same error I got above, with the asf (cannot open, or unsupported).

[Nolonemo]

I have used eo video to convert .asf files. you can download a trial at www.eo-video.com. I have heard their encoder is not very good, though.

[BJ_M]

i dont know anything about this but i suspect the fact that there is a password makes it a little less straight foreward

[Nolonemo]

This file required a password before I could view it in WMP. I bought access, so I'm legal, I was just hoping to preserve these files via VCD. Am I out of luck?

I think you might need a program that grabs the video as it plays, similar to the ones that will record streaming Real audio. (I don't know if such a thing exists)

[ll81]

Hi guys, i have finally found a way to encode wmv files to mpeg files using tpmgenc.

Previously i was not able to do this because the new type of wmv files are protected by Microsoft.

To be able to do encode using tpmgenc, download windows media player 9, Windows Media Player Codecs 8.0 and Windows Media Encoder 9 from www.microsoft.com

After installing everything, restart the PC
And open tpmgenc to try and convert to vcd.
It should work without any error messages.

[BJ_M]

interisting -- of course to do this , windows media player 9 pretty hoses the rest of your system