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.

[-h]

You can use Graphedit to decode the audio into a .wav file, and Avisynth's DirectShowSource() function to load the video into VirtualDub.

I suppose there are guides on this.

-h

[N_F]

Perhaps AsfTools would work (don't have a link to it, search).

[-h]

Or just use TMPGEnc.

-h

[mcq3000]

thanks, but wqith TMPEnc, I had to convert to mpeg1 and then from mpeg1 to avi, in the future is it possible to convert straight to AVI from ASFT using TMPenc or i have to go this route.

ANd also, how do I convert Realmedia and QUicktime files to avi, are there sepearate tools for that or can I also use the DirectShowSource function. If so, how do I call this function to load up in VDub for each media type, do I have to have the players installed or are there totally seperate tools to convert each one?

Or would media cleaner 5 handle this? If i remember correctly, it seems to handle all possible movie formats, though I had problems with it when converting mpeg1 to Divx 4/5 avi.

[-h]

TMPGEnc has always been able to save AVI files.

It's under the File menu, the "Output To File" option.

-h

[Mistar Muffin]

For ASF use TMPGENC as suggested by -h and for Real use TINRA, and mov2avi for Quicktime.