Cut Assistant not working the way it's supposed to

[jeanmarc]

Hey all,

Here's my problem. I have a wmv from which I would like to cut a part out and I have been searching the net for a simple solution without reencode. I downloaded asfbin & cut assistant to do just that. Now I have tried to "crop" the section I need but the resulting file is a 2 seconds crop from another part of the movie and I have absolutely no clue why it would do that because I set the start & end times of my section precisely to the frames I want, about 10 times already and it always does the same. This is getting nerve wracking.
I am not a specialist at all with this stuff, I would just like to cut my damn video, so if anybody would be so kind as to help me on my problem or guide me through the process as I obviously did something wrong which I'm totally oblivious to, that would be great!


I downloaded asfbin & cut assistant from the link in here, I set up asfbin.exe in options>settings in cut assistant, I put the -rkf. That's all I did.


Thanks in advance!

EDIT: ok after some digging I seem to get that error: "Decompression error: VCM decoding driver is not available", I can't seem to find that VCM thing on the web though...

[jeanmarc]

OK, so I finally got rid of the error message by installing the VCM and every codec mentioned during the processing are now supported.

Problem is, I now get an output video which is the right frame size, the right length but all black and it doesn't play.

Here's the log:

C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads>asfbin -i  "0155_18M_1840.wmv"  -o  "C:\
Users\XXXX\Downloads\0155_18M_1840.cut.wmv"    -start  1:55:53.6
28  -duration  0:23:24.751  -rkf
ASFBIN - version asfbin 1.7.13.756. Copyright 2001-2009 by RadioActive.
Non-commercial version.
Visit www.radioactivepages.com for latest updates.
Checking VCM Drivers:
  FourCC MPG4 is supported [driver=mpg4c32.dll]
  FourCC MP42 is supported [driver=mpg4c32.dll]
  FourCC MP43 is supported [driver=mpg4c32.dll]
  FourCC WMV3 is supported [driver=wmv9vcm.dll]
  Extending support for additional video formats:
Input file list:
   File no. 01: C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\0155_18M_1840.wmv exists

Segments to copy:
   Segment no. 01: start = 01:55:53.628, duration = 00:23:24.751,
Overwrite file C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\0155_18M_1840.cut.wmv? [y
/n]:y

Parsing file C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\0155_18M_1840.wmv:
0-100%:.....10.....20.....30.....40.....50.....60.....70.....80.....90.....100
Stream [1]: Audio Media, Bitrate = 64032 bits/s
Stream [2]: Video Media, Bitrate = 1250000 bits/s
Writing output file C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads\0155_18M_1840.cut.wm
v:
First samples will be recompressed if non-KF (key frame).
0-100%:.....10.....20.....30.....40.....50.....60.....70.....80.....90.....100
Indexing output file:
0-100%:.....10.....20.....30.....40.....50.....60.....70.....80.....90.....100

C:\Users\XXXX\Downloads>

Since there is no error message I don't think I can go any further than that by myself, any help would be appreciated! By the way I'm on windows 7 if it's any help at all.

[filmboss80]

I don't use Cut Assist, so I can't help you there; but since your source is a WMV file, why not just use Windows Movie Maker?

[jeanmarc]

Well I do know the "process" would be easier in WMM but I was specific that I wanted to avoid reencoding and that's exactly what WMM does. Asfbin, on the other hand, is supposed to be able to cut without doing anything else, that's what I wanted to keep the best quality possible for the video.