Posted by steverossiter on 11/05/06 06:40

I use a program called SDP Downloader ( http://sdp.ppona.com/ ) to
capture Media Player audio and video streams to a local file with an
..asf file extention. After this I then use dBpowerAMP (
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm ) to convert the asf file to mp3.

Most of the time the process goes as planned but one audio streaming
source offers up content in an uncompressed .wav format that SDP
Downloader captures but dBpowerAMP cannot convert it saying "CODEC
decompression error"

The only player that will play these files is Windows Media Player
Classic if I start playback a few seconds into the file, otherwise MP
Classic will play the first couple of seconds then jump to the end and
stop.

Perhaps an audio editor that can parse out the portion beyond the first
few seconds and then save the file as a .wav format, although that is
what I think it is anyway just that SDP Downloader gives it the .asf
extention and probably some header information that I am not sure how
to work with.

Well, strange problem, but hopefully someone has an answer.

Thanks for the help, Steve.

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