I would like to capture an ASF stream to save the file on my hard drive and convert it to AVI for editing. (I'll try to figure that second part out later, capturing and converting in one fell swoop would be good too if possible)

I've looked into Windows Media Recorder v8, but the problem is that I'm streaming the signal on a multicast transport stream, and the WMR program seems to disable windows media player's capability to play multicast. (It automatically unchecks the "Multicast" box when WMR is run.)

I've also looked into using Graphedit. I am able to Render the *.nsc media file and play it to the "Video Renderer". If I swap the renderer for the AVI Mux/File Writer filters (I chose an AVI file name to output to), the file is made but it is very inconsistent. (Sometimes it stays at 0 bytes, sometimes it writes about 20MB after a minute of playing, and sometimes it writes over 500MB after a minute of recording.) In all cases, the file is not a valid AVI. If I change to a UYVY file or Raw Video file, the frames are there but the colours are all off and the picture is very distorted.


Also FYI, the .asf file stream is encoded with Microsoft's new VC-9 codec, using a Tandberg hardware encoder.

PS. Is there a better place for me to post this thread in order to get expert responses.