digitalFAQ.com Forums [Archives] - How to Convert Asf video to kvcd?

digitalFAQ.com Forums [Archives] (http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/)

- Video Encoding and Conversion (http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/encode/)

- - How to Convert Asf video to kvcd? (http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/encode/8092-how-convert-asf.html)

Paulus

02-08-2004 05:51 PM

How to Convert Asf video to kvcd?

I have managed to safe a video stream of a tv show (National Songfestival :lol: ) to my harddisk (it's in .asf format).

Is there a way to transcode this to KVCD ?

I know, quality is poor but I would like to see it on the TV screen. Hopefully it's still watchable. (for an .asf it's not so bad quality by the way...)

Encoder Master

02-09-2004 03:00 PM

Load just in TMPGEnc. So I do it.

Paulus

02-10-2004 01:06 AM

You don't use an .avs script....?

Guess the V4 DIVX script will work also on .asf..

Dialhot

02-10-2004 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulus

Guess the V4 DIVX script will work also on .asf..

It should if you replace "Avisource("...",false)" by "Directshowsource("...").killaudio()".

Paulus

02-10-2004 12:59 PM

Yep....

Gonna try it tonight/this evening. Hope result will be good.

Paulus

02-10-2004 05:52 PM

I am trying this script:

Code:

directshowsource("D:\Streams\bb.20040129.asf").killaudio() 

Addborders(0,8,0,0)

BlindPP(cpu=4) 

Blockbuster(method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=3,variance=0.1,seed=1) 

Convolution3D(1, 6, 12, 6, 8, 2.8, 0) 

GripCrop(480,576,overscan=1, source_anamorphic=false,dest_anamorphic=false) 

GripSize(resizer="LanczosResize") 

Undot() 

TemporalSoften(2,7,7,3,2) 

DCTFilter(1,1,1,1,1,1,0.5,0) 

GripBorders()

The source .asf file is 352x264 so I added "AddBorders(0,8,0,0)" I hope that's right (352/16=22 - OK, 264/16=16,5 -> closest value devisable by 16 is 272 = Add 8 ).

Problem is that both TMPGenc and Vdub crash when loading this .avs (?).

Further I cannot use Vdub to separate audio from video on the .asf file (Vdub gives an (error)message about Microsoft patents and that it's unable / not allowed to accept .asf files :evil: ).

Maybe don't use "kill audio" on the .avs script (if I can get it to work) and use "system (video+audio) in TMPGenc ?

bigggt

02-10-2004 06:38 PM

Hi Paulus

Search for virtualdub 1.3 or 1.4 (can't remember) but one of them allows .asf files

Dialhot

02-10-2004 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulus

Maybe don't use "kill audio" on the .avs script (if I can get it to work) and use "system (video+audio) in TMPGenc ?

Yeah, may be. Test it and tell us.

Paulus

02-11-2004 06:52 AM

@bigggt
Thanks, I'll look for those versions......

@Dialhot
Removed the .killaudio lines and opend the .avs file in TMPG with "System (video + audio)" setting, but........ TMPG still crashed (not responding for minutes after trying to load the file) ?

I suspect this is a codec issue ( :evil: ). I have NIMO / ACE / LIGOS etc. etc. Should I change / check some codecs (does .asf require a special codec/filter ?)........

I'm using the TMPG 2.513 Plus by the way............

Dialhot

02-11-2004 06:55 AM

ASF is a property of M$, delievered as free at first but becoming not-free one day : That is why Vdub removed it from its features.

Still then, almost no tool was delivered with an asf support.
You can use "Movie Maker" from M$ or look for "asf2avi" on the web. But the results are poor.

Paulus

02-11-2004 11:51 AM

I've downloaded ASF-tools (http://www.asftools.de/) which can convert .asf to .avi, so I read......Let's see how that works.....

Also I'm downloading VirtualDub 1.3C which should be able to handle .asf....

What would be the best way to transcode to kvcd with as little compression loss as possible ?

I also need to cut a clip of ca. 5 minutes from the source (which is 471 MB for 67 minutes).

Dialhot

02-11-2004 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulus

What would be the best way to transcode to kvcd with as little compression loss as possible ?

using a lossless avi codec as huffyuv but it need 8Go by hour of video in VCD resolution.

Quote:

I also need to cut a clip of ca. 5 minutes from the source (which is 471 MB for 67 minutes).

With vdub all this will be possible.

Paulus

02-11-2004 01:38 PM

pfffff.....it's one of those hopeless "projects" it seems......

I've tried Vdub 1.3C which should be able to handle .asf. ...BUT .....when trying to open my .asf file a error message - yet again - turns up..: "couldn't locate decompressor for format wmv2"(unknown).

Searching the net I found this: http://www.google.nl/search?q=cache:...art=2&ie=UTF-8

This also lead me to an interesting program called "GraphEdit" where you can configure which codecs to use for various media files. It works with a GUI like a flowchart program.....Looks promissing but I didn't figure out how to use it.....

pffff........any advise...= :roll:

Dialhot

02-11-2004 06:00 PM

Graphedit is one of the very rare programm I passed throught because I don't really understand it :-). Good luck :-)

rendalunit

02-11-2004 11:14 PM

I've extracted the audio from .asf files with Goldwave before but it's very slow. Also i think you need to specify the frames per second in the script for .asf files.

bigggt

02-12-2004 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rendalunit

Also i think you need to specify the frames per second in the script for .asf files.

Exactly

when i used wmv files i used this

Code:

DirectShowSource("video.asf", fps=15).

of course you put your own frame rate in and then load into tmpge and use system(audio+Video) and everything worked great

Paulus

02-13-2004 01:44 AM

Hmm.....In fact I've already converted my .asf files to .wmv files with Windows Media Encoder 7 because nothing (Vdub 1.3 / Tmpg) can read my .asf files.

Maybe just use the "fps" part in the source setting of my script and it works ??.....

PS: Why you use Fps = 15 ?

Dialhot

02-13-2004 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paulus

PS: Why you use Fps = 15 ?

Because he had a 15 fps source :-)

Paulus

02-13-2004 09:07 AM

...makes sense :lol: ....

How to proceed with .wmv files (-> Virtual Dub ?)

Hydeus

02-13-2004 10:55 AM

You can split wmv and asf under graphedit, and redurect sterams to AVI video and WMA audio. This way produced AVI (probably MSMPEG4V2/3) should be redable by any video editer.

bigggt

02-14-2004 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil

Because he had a 15 fps source

Actually now this is going to be suprising but i got it from the Filter/Directshowsource part of the filters manual

Suprising because as Phil suggested i have started to read the manuals a liitle bit before just asking questions :wink:

incredible

02-20-2004 08:23 AM

Exactly this afternoon I will have to convert an asf to mpg, and I searche on the web where I found this Guide:

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/asf2avi.html

Well, ... I will see how that works :?

Inc.

Paulus

02-20-2004 04:59 PM

I tried something similar but was unsuccesful (still.... :( )..

I repaired my .asf files with ASF tools 3.1 and then tried to load them into Virtual Dub 1.3C (the only version that should be able to handle .asf) but my files are not accepted.

On opening in VD1.3c I get an error messages about "illegal object fragment flags".

I tried various "advanced" repairing methods (in ASF tools) but nothing seems to work..

I gues it's one of those projects that are cancelled because it takes way to much time to get the solution (searched for hours on various forums but nothing works.....)

:cry:

Paulus

02-24-2004 04:44 PM

How is your .asf -> .mpg project going Incredible :?:........

Still have a bunch of live stream .asf's waiting to be converted to .mpg

Hope you had more succes than I did....
:roll:

fabiana

02-25-2004 03:18 AM

Hi everybody?
Well, why don`t you just load your .asf as Audio Source --> ES (Audio Only)?
I did a little test here and it worked! :-)

Hope it helps!

:-))

Dialhot

02-25-2004 04:09 AM

asf are video files, not only audio !

fabiana

02-26-2004 12:39 AM

Hey Dialhot,
I´m not arguin`against that but it seems that my little advice works just fine!

I`ve made a small test here and it seems to work!
Just take a look:

Audio
1- Open TMPGenc and in Audio source select the asf file;
2- Select File --> Output to file --> WAVE file
3- Save as PCM, 44.100Hz, 16 bit, Estéreo

Video
1- TMPGenc --> In Video source select the asf file;
2- In Audio source load the previously created wave file;
3- Select File --> Output to file --> AVI file
4- Save using HuffYUV codec;

Final step:

Create the script, load in TmpGenc and encode to kvcd! :-)

So what do you think?