Eddage Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Just wandering if any Media Center users knew of any programs that can convert the .asf format that are created when you record a tv program? I usually use VirtualDub for this sort of thing but it says that it cannot convert the file? Cheers for any help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 There are two routes that I would try. i) Install avisynth (a great move) and create a text file with the extension .avs, where the text file contains the line: DirectShowSource("Full FilePath of asf file", fps=25, convertfps=true) So it'll be an avs file with a line like: DirectShowSource("C:\Documents and Settings\Twilight Link\My Documents\My Videos\TV Show.asf", fps=25, convertfps=true) Then you can open this text file in virtualdub and avisynth will work its magic. Or ii) Get ffmpeg, open a command window and use the commandline: "full path to ffmpeg.exe" -i "full path to file" -f mpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mpg Then you can open the resulting mpeg2 file in virtualdubmpeg2 (a virtualdub modification). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Cheers, I'll try them out and report back my results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 I tried the first approach, however, when I try to open the .avs file in VirtualDub it just gives me this message... Avisynth open failure:Script error: DirectShowSource does not have a named argument "convert fps" (C:\Documents and Settings\Edd\My Documents\test.avs, line 1) Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Do you have 'convert fps' instead of 'convertfps'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Nope, I just copied and pasted what you wrote here (I changed the file destination) so it should be correct?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Did you install an old version of avisynth? This is the most up to date stable version: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 I've now installed that version and it comes back with... The file is definitely there!? Could it be that a 'Microsoft Recorded TV Show' has a different extension to .asf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Oh, you assumed it was an asf file? I believe they are normally dvr-ms files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 Oh, you assumed it was an asf file? I believe they are normally dvr-ms files. Well when you try to open it in VirtualDub it says something along the lines of "Microsoft holds the patent to ASF file format", or something along those lines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 A dvr-ms file uses the asf container but the file extension for these files is usually dvr-ms. Go into Windows Explorer and turn on file extensions then all confusion will be done away with. Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>View>Untick "Hide Extensions for known file types" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Ok, so I cahnged the file extension in the notepad file to .dvr-ms. I know get a message saying "No video stream found" when I try to open it with VirtualDub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Try the ffmpeg method then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Do you have a link to the download? I've Googled it and have found what I believe is the website but am having trouble downloading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.rev8435.7z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddage Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 Don't you just love it when things are this simple... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/pthreadGC2.dll.7z Put it in the same folder as ffmpeg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=NukeBlaze= Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I reccomend DvrMS toolbox, if the above does not work. It worked well when I used it, and it is very specific to that format conversion. http://babgvant.com/files/folders/dvrmstoolbox/entry2311.aspx It has other useful feature, like the ablity to skip commericals while recording a televison program in Xp MCE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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