converting asf files to be played on dvd player

[Deach]

i want 2 convert my asf into mpeg/avi/vcd so i can burn them onto a disc then watch them on my dvd player ive tryed virtual dub but its not much help, is there any other programs that can do this im not really bothered wat they are converted into just aslong as i can play them on my dvd player

[Shadowrider]

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgenc.htm will convert asf->vcd
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http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tmpgencsvcd.htm will convert asf-> svcd

[Deach]

ive tried tmpgenc it takes 2 long cos u gotta do them 1 by 1

[Magus]

Well, it isn't TMPGEnc that takes too long, it is the process itself. If you wanted to convert a 100MB .avi file into a .mpg (MPEG Layer-1) so you can burn it to a VCD and watch it on your DVD player, it will take a great deal of time if you have an older system. I would guess that on a system with a Pentium III clocked at 700mHz and 256MB of memory, the process would take six hours at the very least. And that is at MPEG-Layer 1 resolution without any filters applied. So if you don't want this to take that long, get a new PC. My system with a Northwood chip at 2.7gHz and 512MB of RDRAM could convert the same file in an hour.

[Deach]

i wanna convert 13 files which each hav a max of 20MB, so how long u think thatll take my processor speed is 1.5GHz

[Magus]

If you convert them to MPEG Layer-1 and not MPEG Layer-2 and you don't use any of TMPGEncoder's filters, I think it could be done in less than 9 hours total.

[Deach]

9 hours!

[Magus]

It could be less. That length really isn't that bad. Combined (13 20MB files) you are encoding 260MB of video and audio. The longest encoding length I have endured is twelve hours, when I used the older family PC with the Coppermine Pentium III.

[Deach]

ok i converted 1 file 2 c if it worked it got half way thru then the sound went off.the file i converted was actually 4 files which i meged into 1, u think this has sumfin 2 day with it