codes to convert from avi to asf

Question

Hello everyone,

No matter what library/SDK to use, I want to convert from avi to asf very quickly (I could even sacrifice some quality of video and audio). I am working on Windows platform (Vista and 2008 Server), better .Net SDK/code, C++ code is also fine. :-)

I learned from the below link, that there could be a very quick way to convert from avi to asf to support streaming better, as mentioned "could convert the video from AVI to ASF format using a simple copy (i.e. the content is the same, but container changes).". My question is after some hours of study and trial various SDK/tools, as a newbie, I do not know how to begin with so I am asking for reference sample code to do this task. :-)

(as this is a different issue, we decide to start a new topic. :-) )

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/743220/streaming-avi-file-issue

thanks in advance, George

EDIT 1:

I have tried to get the binary of ffmpeg from,

http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/ffmpeg-latest-mingw32-static.tar.bz2

then run the following command,

C:\software\ffmpeg-latest-mingw32-static\bin>ffmpeg.exe -i test.avi -acodec copy
 -vcodec copy test.asf
FFmpeg version SVN-r18506, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --prefix=/mingw --cross-prefix=i686-ming
w32- --cc=ccache-i686-mingw32-gcc --target-os=mingw32 --arch=i686 --cpu=i686 --e
nable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-zlib --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enabl
e-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libo
penjpeg --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaad -
-enable-libschroedinger --enable-libx264
  libavutil     50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
  libavcodec    52.25. 0 / 52.25. 0
  libavformat   52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  built on Apr 14 2009 04:04:47, gcc: 4.2.4
Input #0, avi, from 'test.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:44.86, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5291 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: msvideo1, rgb555le, 1280x1024, 5 tbr, 5 tbn, 5 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 352 kb/s
Output #0, asf, to 'test.asf':
    Stream #0.0: Video: CRAM / 0x4D415243, rgb555le, 1280x1024, q=2-31, 1k tbn,
5 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 352 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame=  224 fps=222 q=-1.0 Lsize=   29426kB time=44.80 bitrate=5380.7kbits/s

video:26910kB audio:1932kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.023317%

C:\software\ffmpeg-latest-mingw32-static\bin>

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/webhelp/default.aspx?&mpver=11.0.6001.7000&id=C00D11B1&contextid=230&originalid=C00D36E6

then have the following error when using Windows Media Player to play it, does anyone have any ideas?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/webhelp/default.aspx?&mpver=11.0.6001.7000&id=C00D11B1&contextid=230&originalid=C00D36E6

Answer 1

Maybe you could use FFMPEG and run a command like this (I haven't tried):

ffmpeg.exe -i test.avi -acodec copy -vcodec copy test.asf

Answer 2

You want to convert avi to asf? Just use a total video converter, which can convert almost any video format with excellent conversion speed and quality, such as converting WMV to MP4, WMV to MPEG, MKV to AVI, WMV to AVI, AVI to MPEG, etc.. Furthermore, it can easily convert video files to popular audio files like converting WMV to MP3, AVI to WMA, MKV to AAC, MP4 to MP3, etc. Wish can help you, good luck!

Answer 3

You want to convert avi to asf? Just use a total video converter which can convert almost any video format with excellent conversion speed and quality, such as converting AVI to ASF, WMV to MPEG, MKV to AVI, WMV to AVI, AVI to MPEG, etc.. Furthermore, it can easily convert video files to popular audio files like converting WMV to MP3, AVI to WMA, MKV to AAC, MP4 to MP3, etc.