[MPlayer-users] ASF files

[SMuelas]

Thanks a lot for your very complete information. In fact, my first try
has given me a reasonably-view avi file but the sound is ridiculous...
Thank you once more

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 14:02, gabor farkas wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:22:44PM +0200, SMuelas wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Can anyone tell me what kind of file is a *.ASF file?
> > MPlayer runs it wonderfully but I would like to know if I can append 2
> > or more files or "recompile" (crop, resize ...) them with mencoder
> 
> 
> i played a bit with asf files, so:
> 
> asf contains the same audio/video stream as an avi can contain..
> 
> the difference is that you can stream an asf file ( you cannot stream an
> avi)...
> 
> the only problem with encoding or recoding or recompiling is that the
> asf file doesn't contain any info about frame/sec...
> 
> so you have to specify it in mencoder..
> like: mencoder -fps 25
> 
> the problem is that it's a hit/miss work... like you specify 25, and
> mencoder begins to tell that he added frames... so you have to reduce
> the fps value and begin again..
> then mencoder tells that he skipped some frames, so you have to increase
> the fps value a bit... and so on :-)
> 
> and, i tried as hard as i could, i couldn't get a 'perfect' avi file ...
> 
> it's perfect 99.9% of time, but there are some very minor glitches...
> 
> i think it's because of the fps... i don't know the internals of the asf
> format, but maybe tthey have a bit variable fps? 
> 
> bye,
> gabor
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