How do I convert A Windows Media 7 ASF to AVI???

[mcq3000]

Is this possible or am I just wasting my time? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated as I have some critical videos that I would like to have in an avi format for editing purposes and I cannot even import this asf in VirtualDub 1.3 (later versions disable asf support) as it gives a "Couldn't locate decompressor for format WMV1" error.

Thanks for any help given.

[slavickas]

try
http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/
although sync isn't perfect

[draggoon01]

is there any way to register some file/windows codec, to get virtual dub to open the asf?

[valja]

Originally posted by draggoon01
is there any way to register some file/windows codec, to get virtual dub to open the asf?
afaik NO, only legal codec is a direct-show filter. You have to convert asf to mpg or avi and only then use VirtualDub. I explained, how to do it, in another forum:

virtualdub.evervicked.com (http://virtualdub.everwicked.com/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=738)

[Cyberia]

I don't know why people have a hard time with this.

both ASF and WMV can be transcoded using an AviSynth script loaded in vdub.

DirectShowSource("c:\mymovie.asf")

[bond]

Wasn't VD 1.4c the last VD-Version which supported asf?

Since then the asf-support was removed because of M$ patents.

[Cyberia]

I don't mean opening the asf directly in vdub, you are opening it indirectly through avisynth.

This method works in all versions.