Posted by fred-bloggs on 11/07/06 11:10

steverossiter@sbcglobal.net wrote in news:1162876126.832428.156380
@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
> 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.
>

Try using AsfTools to extract the audio stream and save it as .WAV
http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/


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fred

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