Help with encoding a video asf file

[Mentalmummy]

Hope this is the right forum to post, if not I apologise in advance.

I have an mp4 player that plays asf video files. It has a built in encoder which does video great but very tinny sound and I have been unable to find a way to encode an asf file with commercial software as all I tried say it converts to asf but saves as a wmv file so it won`t play.

Could anyone point me to either a commercial convertor that can convert an avi or mpeg file to a video asf file with if possible mp3 audio. I tried Windows Media Encoder 9 but every file I try gives the error that windows cannot decompress the video and says I should try converting on the machine I created the file on but it is being attempted on the same machine so I guess that it has a problem somewhere or else I would use that.

I tried using the forum search and di not see this addressed, and I have googled a lot of different asf convertors before asking so if I missed a post about this please excuse me.

Thanks.

[Razorholt]

http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&id=ASFMuxer

This is what I'm using. Hope it helps.

- Dan

[Mentalmummy]

It looks exactly what I am after but when I try to use it on an avi (xvid for example) it tells me it can`t build a graph :(

I`ve tried uninstalling ffdshow and installing the xvid codec but nothing seems to work so I`m still unable to use it.

Thanks for the link, it looks if I can get it to work as if it will be perfect!

[Mentalmummy]

Doh!

I had to run regsvr32 and register the file!

Thanks.

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Doh!

I had to run regsvr32 and register the file!

Thanks.

Dave,
Could I ask you a couple of questions?
Is 'mp4 player' you mentions hardware one?
One more thing, our ASF muxer does not convert XVID to WMV, it leaves the compressed video in the initial state (e.g XVID) and just to multiplex it to ASF format. Does such a behavour is that you need?

[Razorholt]

Hey Dmitry,

I also got a question for you :)

When I play my file in AVI or OGM, it works fine, but as soon as I switch containers and use ASF (using your great software) the clip becomes very blocky and it pauses too. So, I have to re-encode it and readjust the minimum Quantizer. I guess the ASF splitter is to blame here, right? Is there anything I can do about it?

My PC specs are: P4, 512RAM, winXP.


Thank you.

- Dan

[Dmitry Vergheles]

Hey Dmitry,

I also got a question for you :)

When I play my file in AVI or OGM, it works fine, but as soon as I switch containers and use ASF (using your great software) the clip becomes very blocky and it pauses too. So, I have to re-encode it and readjust the minimum Quantizer. I guess the ASF splitter is to blame here, right? Is there anything I can do about it?

My PC specs are: P4, 512RAM, winXP.


Thank you.

- Dan
Hello Dan,

Could you please upload us one of initial files you have the probles with?
Please mail me directly and I inform you of our FTP you can upload the file to.

[Mentalmummy]

Dave,
Could I ask you a couple of questions?
Is 'mp4 player' you mentions hardware one?
One more thing, our ASF muxer does not convert XVID to WMV, it leaves the compressed video in the initial state (e.g XVID) and just to multiplex it to ASF format. Does such a behavour is that you need?

Yes it was a hardware player (have a psp now instead). One of those on ebay that play ASF files and mp3 music files, the example asf included with it was an Xvid with adpcm audio codec so I used the asf version of virtualdub to read it in and save as an avi, for testing the muxer.

The playback audio and video when using the muxer was still identical according to my computer but the muxed asf would not play on the player.

I have a player arriving for a friend and will be using the muxer to try some xvid and divx muxing for that, it is possible that it was just the player being awkward.

It played fine on the pc though.

[Razorholt]

@Dmitry: Thanks for your answer. I will contact you today.

- Dan