how to convert windows media 7 asf to divx?

[draggoon01]

anyone know a good way of doing this? tmpg takes forever and virtualdub 14c-asf can't find the correct decompressor. help please

[-h]

You can use Graphedit to decode the audio to a .wav file, and Avisynth to frameserve the video to VirtualDub with the DirectShowSource() command.

I doubt it will be any faster than TMPGEnc, in fact it'll probably be slower. In my experience, TMPGEnc did the .asf/.wmv -> .avi conversion with very little overhead.

-h

[draggoon01]

have you tried specifically with windos media 7 asf files? i load up 1hour asf files, and tmpg becomes sluggish and estimates 40 hours to finish (1500+ xp cpu, winxp), and cpu usage is minimal (as seen from task bar). it's weird because other asf files work fine.

[-h]

I'll attest to that behaviour being "odd".

Or, you could search for and install ffvfw, since it is a VfW codec capable of decoding WMV1, which this .asf file most likely uses for video. Then you could perform the processing through VirtualDub 1.3c.

-h