[elena_k]

Dear friends:
Thank you very much for your answers. Temporally I can’t try your advises on my laptop, now I work with another PC and I am surprised to see that WM Player installed on both computers doesn’t play my .asf files. I suspect that there is smthing wrong with the files.

To Milardo:
I appreciate very much your help!

Originally Posted by Milardo

You shouldn't have a problem converting asf files since windows should be able to handle it with no problems. Maybe you have to reformat the hard drive on your computer and reinstall the operating system.

By chance I will have to do this but for another reason – my laptop has crached

Originally Posted by Milardo

Can you watch the videos?

Yes I can – with WM Player after some fighting, and with VideoLan, Winamp and KLite media player – always.

Originally Posted by Milardo

You always have problems converting them?

Some programmes which are marked with “+” in my list did the job, but the results did not satisfy me: the output didn’t had audio-video sync or had little resolution. And the number of programmes that failed to convert .asf surprises me very much.

Originally Posted by Milardo

What program do you use to record to dvd?

I tried Nero but it doesn’t support .asf.

Originally Posted by Milardo

You can try these freeware video converters.
All to avi.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=156812
Mediacoder
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, I tried them but they failed, I attach the screenshots.

Originally Posted by Milardo

Windows Media 9 encoder
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx

As far as I understood it only converts to .wmv.

Originally Posted by Milardo

You can also try using the Windows Movie Maker to convert to .wmv as well.

It seems to me that my DVD player doesn’t reproduce .wmv, or your idea was to convert .wmv to smthing else later?

Originally Posted by Milardo

If these don't work and if you can watch the video files you could try a screen capture program to capture the video into avi format with sound good quality. Here is the link. Don't update it because it will turn into shareware version.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ymltg5jydz
Any questions just reply.

And with Soft Screen recorder I would have to play each recording on PC, and my idea was to record videos with Replay AV on the background and then burn them to DVD…

To Stream Recorder:
Thank you very much for your help!

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

It is better to convert to DVD directly. You may use freeware DVD authoring tool called DVD Flick to convert ASF files to DVD. And it is always better to watch Windows Media files directly than after conversion.

Yes, I tried this programme and it did the job, also “Easy WMV ASF ASX to DVD Burner” worked for me, the problem is that the output files are so large: for instance 130 mb -> 2400 mb. I won’t be able to buy enough DVD discs to burn everyth I wish, je je!

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

If you have enough of money you can afford solutions like Apple iTV. There were lots of such gadgets on the electronic show it Vegas this year. But I bet you watch this streaming TV shows for free and would like to have a cheap (better free) solution
Here is what you can do:
• You may use a video card with TVout to watch your Wndows Media videos on your TV.
• And you may buy a cheap DVD player that supports ASF files.

You are completely right the cheaper the solution is - the better. By the same reason I doubt if I can permit myself buy another DVD player… or a TV card…

Is there any possibility to reduce the .vob or .mpg files without quality loss?

Thanks again,
Elena.