Help on asf playback

Klick

Guest

Hi ppl,

I got an asf which uses non-std codec. It can only be played using a 3rd party player which expired (*sob*) some time ago.
Is there anything I can do? Like fixing it or
reencoding it so it can be a normal asf?
Opening it using Media Classic gav the error below: —

\mymovie.asf::Raw Audio 0

Stream 0

Media Type 0:
— — — — — — — — — — — — —
AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {0000016D-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 768
cbFormat: 116

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x016d
nChannels: 2
nSamplesPerSec: 32000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 4000
nBlockAlign: 768
wBitsPerSample: 16
cbSize: 98 (extra bytes)

Please help. Thanks.

Regular
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Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,286

Do you know what codec the asf used? If not feed the file into avicodec. (not gspot or videoinspector - they can’t read the codec off windows media files yet)
http://avicodec.duby.info

Klick

Guest

Thanks for the link... got the app and below are the results.

V.codec name : Unknown
A.1 codec name: Unknown

File: 172MB, Duration: 1:25:20, type: ASF, 1 audio stream(s), quality 14%

Video: 152MB, 249Kbps, 9.981 fps, 384*288 (4:3), o=Unknown, Unsupported
Audio: 20MB, 34Kbps, 32000Hz, 2 channels, 0x16D=Unknown, Unsupported

Hrmm... seems bad huh? any hope I can get a player to play the above file?

Regular
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Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,286

Do you recall what the third party player that expired was?
Fourcc of 0 is pretty puzzling (in the past we’ve agreed fourcc of 0 indicated fake files, but you stated being able to play it before, so we can rule that out for your file), and an audio tag of 16D is not registered on the Microsoft site.

Klick

Guest

The player (and downloader) is called Shangtong Movie Manager. I’m not sure what’s the actual player that is being used for the playback...
But i remember when I first install the player... it was download some sort of codec in the background... not sure what as it was pretty fast.
sigh...

It’s quite big (176M else i would upload and let you guys check it out...

Klick

Guest

Errm... quite big as in the asf file..not the player... hehehe...