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Hey guys, I've got a seemingly small problem here that seems impossible to fix. Here's my tale of woe...
I've got a handful of .asf files ranging from 33 to 400MB in size. All of them play just fine on WinXP Pro using Media Player 8 but none of them will track...meaning I can't fast forward. The first thing I did was try and use VDub 1.3c to convert them to .avi. When I did, I'd always get the "Couldn't locate decompressor for format "WMV2" (unknown)". Okay, I then tried using ASFTools to "repair" the files. While it went thru the complete repair routine just fine, VDub still gave me the same error when I'd try and convert them.
Next I tried TMPGEnc. It would work but would never complete the entire conversion process because it would lock up 10 or so minutes into the conversion. Using GraphEdit, I was able to decompress(?) the file but the resulting size was just too big. For example, it made a 33MB .asf into a 3GB .avi. That's just too big to keep around on a drive. And since the majority of my .asf files are around the 400MB mark, the resultant .avi that would be created using this method would be astronomical in size...probably around 30GB.
Surely there has to be a way to convert these things into a manageable .avi or .mpeg. To be honest, I'd settle for a .asf file that would simply track thru the entire movie. I've tried a couple of other forums about this problem and no one has been able to figure it out. Any ideas or recommendations would be great. Thx in advance!!
Tarrant
I've got a handful of .asf files ranging from 33 to 400MB in size. All of them play just fine on WinXP Pro using Media Player 8 but none of them will track...meaning I can't fast forward. The first thing I did was try and use VDub 1.3c to convert them to .avi. When I did, I'd always get the "Couldn't locate decompressor for format "WMV2" (unknown)". Okay, I then tried using ASFTools to "repair" the files. While it went thru the complete repair routine just fine, VDub still gave me the same error when I'd try and convert them.
Next I tried TMPGEnc. It would work but would never complete the entire conversion process because it would lock up 10 or so minutes into the conversion. Using GraphEdit, I was able to decompress(?) the file but the resulting size was just too big. For example, it made a 33MB .asf into a 3GB .avi. That's just too big to keep around on a drive. And since the majority of my .asf files are around the 400MB mark, the resultant .avi that would be created using this method would be astronomical in size...probably around 30GB.
Surely there has to be a way to convert these things into a manageable .avi or .mpeg. To be honest, I'd settle for a .asf file that would simply track thru the entire movie. I've tried a couple of other forums about this problem and no one has been able to figure it out. Any ideas or recommendations would be great. Thx in advance!!
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