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CB said:

“A follow up. I downloaded the Windows Media encoder and the WMCodecs, ran the Windows Media File Editor, opened the file and went to “Save As and Index”. It did not work at first with the error “Failed to Save File” - BUT - good news - when I played the file in the Windows Media File Editor for a few seconds (I couldn’t see it but that didn’t matter) and hit the Mark In button it set the recording start time just a few seconds after the start of the file."

I tried this with my file and it didn’t work. The Mark In button was grayed out.

So I downloaded the editor someone else recommended:
ASFTools at http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/.

Make Seekable didn’t work, so I tried Lost Chunks. It created a file with lch appended to the original file name. This new file still wouldn’t let me scroll the fast foward bar. So I reopened it in the Windows Media File Editor and started to play it. This time, the Mark In button was enabled, and I was able to click it a few seconds into the recording and then successfully save the file.

After that I could fast forward and reverse using the slider bar. I hope nobody else has to go through all of this but I thought I would post my extended fix just in case.

Thank you sooooo much CB Your solution worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you

Are you using the command-line version? That’s for power users. Get the Windows version (the download link says GUI = Graphical User Interface)
http://www.radioactivepages.com/english/asfbin.html

can someone provide more info on this asfbin software?
I found one but i didnt see the bat file or maybe im just a spaz and dont know how to run it
i am having the same problem i have 1 hr files that wont play when i use wm encoder they become 15 min
thanks

oh yea, after you are done move the videos out of that folder and then put in your new ones or else it will just reprocess videos you already did.

OK i got it.

-download the program called asfbin.
-extract asfbin and put the contents in a new folder. might have like 9 files.
-copy the video you want indexed to that folder
-run Reindex.bat

a DOS screen should popup displaying the file it’s working on and the progress %.

your new files will have the file name starting with “Reindexed-...."

really fast but i still do batches at a time.
if you want to delete the “reindexed-.." there are programs that can batch-rename files.

did not work for me as it says file is protected. don’t want to have a permanent copy just want to fast forward.

oops sorry
powerdvd worked for some videos

i had the same problem but I tried using PowerDVD and the files can play in there.

CB - That Worked perfectly on all the files except for one, where the “Mark In” button is inactive, so basically cannot Mark in, only mark out, mostly because the file’s start time is set to “28:26:52” or something like that. Any suggestions?