Problems with MPEG4 ASF

[rustbucket]

I recently borrowed a small MPEG4 video camera from a freind. The camera stores its videos in ASF format on the little SD card inside. Now Windows Media Player plays them fine because it downloaded the corresponding codec for itself. However the files cannot be opened in Movie Maker, Premier or any other conversion program i have tried.

Below is a link to a short 272K clip from the camera.

http://au.msnusers.com/Shpomp/Documents/IMAG0039.ASF

If anyone can help at all it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Nick

[Cobra]

Hi Nick,

Your link doesn't seem to be working.

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?toolsearch=&s=&orderby=Name&hits=50&convert=ASF+to&dvda...+or+List+tools

You can search the tools and the guides section by format conversion - this is a link to all the ASF --> ??? tools. Also, you might want to take a look at VirtualDub ASF, which can be found near the bottom of this page:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/showsoftware_virtualdub_346.html

VirtualDub is like a Swiss army knife when it comes to video editing and encoding. You can use it to convert to whatever you like, or to frameserve the ASF into a program like TMPGEnc to make a DVD-compliant file.

Hope this helps!

Cobra

PS - Welcome to VideoHelp!

[rustbucket]

thanks for the reply, i have tried VirtualDub only to be faced with a notice stating that microsoft owns the patent to .ASF files and intercompatibly isnt a frequent occurance.

[jimmalenko]

thanks for the reply, i have tried VirtualDub only to be faced with a notice stating that microsoft owns the patent to .ASF files and intercompatibly isnt a frequent occurance.

There are many different "flavours" of virtualdub - and virtualdub 1.3c will stll accept ASF files.

I see it written as and linked to 1.4c all the time

Here's a genuine link to 1.3c:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/virtualdub_1_3c.cfm

[Cobra]

I don't use ASF files. I didn't realise that 1.4 didn't do it - I found a version that says it supports ASF and linked to it.

[jimmalenko]

I don't use ASF files. I didn't realise that 1.4 didn't do it - I found a version that says it supports ASF and linked to it.

It's something that I see a lot of, as I said. In fact, I think HRH (Baldrick) has made the same error in the Tools section here. I've mentioned it to him, but it fell on deaf ears

Version 1.4c comes up with the "Microsoft nows owns the patent on ASF files ...." spiel, whereas 1.3c just opens 'em up without a hassle.

[rustbucket]

i tried to import the asf into the version you just gave me and i was given this.

[img]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0OgAPA3wQrMtaUzOCUd7x!pgrkgxx4RyEPtm9FGlIv2bUBK23n KMXWWNZdY1SNezsIa8MimGvhw*8UHaTY!uB4sFruEW0QwdE/d.JPG?dc=4675514741434151218[/img]

any ideas?

[jimmalenko]

thanks heaps for that.

so ...... 1.3c did the job ?


EDIT:
OK, at least it got past the patent issue message ...


... sounds to me like it uses a proprietary codec or something ... have you tried the camera manufacturer's website for the codec ?

[rustbucket]

it works fine playing in media player, it had to download the codec but after that its fine, can you access the file at the end of the link i put in my first comment?

id be very grateful if you could see if it works with your setup

[jimmalenko]

I can't get to the file either (not authorized)

I tell you what ...

put the entire next line in your next post:

[*url]imag0039.asf[/url]

(but without the * - just put it there for demonstration of the bbcode required)


... then click on the Browse button and browse to your ASF file (you can upload files up to 2MB in size this way), then hit submit.

[rustbucket]

imag0039.asf

like that?

[jimmalenko]

=http://au.msnusers.com/Shpomp/Documents/IMAG0039.ASF


like that?

No.

Save the file to your desktop or somewhere like that, then upload it to here just like you would an image, except you use [*url] tags instead of [*img] tags.

[rustbucket]

yeh i got it now, see above

[jimmalenko]

yeh i got it now, see above

Nice work!

checking it out now ...

[jimmalenko]

I got the same error you did in virtualdub 1.3c, but I could open it no worries in Windows Movie Maker and TMPGenc Plus.

[rustbucket]

when i try to open it in Movie Maker all i get is

C:\My Shared Folder\Digicam\Bowling in Melbourne\IMAG0021.ASF could not be imported. The selected file is not valid or is corrupted.


i also get the same with TMPGenc

"cannot open file or is unsupported"



EDIT: i have TMPGenc Plus 2.5, could it be i have the wrong version?

[jimmalenko]

in TMPGEnc, do you get the "cannot open, or unsupported" error message ? If so, try raising the priority of the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader so that it's at the top of the list. You can do this in Options > Environmental Setting > VFAPI Plug-in, then right-click on it and go to Higher Priority. Repeat this if necessary until it's at the top and make sure that it's ticked.

[rustbucket]

nah, still get the same message

p.s i really appreciate you helping though thanks

[celtic_druid]

FourCC is MP4S Microsoft MPEG-4 and it plays back fine here using MS's DMO decoder or via ffdshow. Also opened fine in VDub once I remuxed to an avi with mencoder.

If you don't have ffdshow installed, I would suggest that you install it. If it is installed, make sure that it is enabled for DivX4.