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March 10, 2008 01:06 PM

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traveler 2059

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Greetings:

 I currently use the the Applian At-Large Recorder to record television show while I am traveling. Does anybody know of a free, fast, and effective method of converting the .asf files created by At-Large Recorder to a different file format. 

I believe I have tried most of the free converters out there. Most, either do not work, produce less than satisfactory results or take a large block of time to complete. 

I record television shows on my home lan using slingbox and at-large recorder and get very good picture quality. I would just like to change the format to either burn to DVD or transfer to iPod for viewing on a hotel television.

Thank you in advance for any information provided.

Sincerely,

Richard 

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March 10, 2008 3:53 PM

The converters all take a long time. There are a number out there and they will all do a nice job if you configure them right. On the Mac, I prefer Visual Hub. I have a converter on the PC side, but I forget the name. Anyhow, regardless of what you use, it takes roughly 45 minutes to do an hour show. There are some hardware encoders out there that are supposed to drastically speed things up. They plug into the USB port and all the encoding is done on that device.

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March 10, 2008 4:06 PM

Applian makes a couple of products, but they do not seem any better than the ones mentioned above.  You might contact Applian to consider providing the option to store files in some other format than as ASF. 

Floyd

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March 10, 2008 4:28 PM

It would be most sweet if At Large could save the files in MPEG-4 or H.264. But I think part of that problem then is that it would have to encode the file on the fly. I believe the SlingPlayer stream is in a format very similar to ASF so it's not much different than simply saving the stream. Of course since the ProHD is supposed to use H.264, Applian may have to change what they do at some point...

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March 10, 2008 7:10 PM

Windows Movie Maker, free with XP, may do what you want. I would give it a try first.

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March 10, 2008 9:17 PM

Thanks for the insights. I may try and find a hardware encoder for my .asf files. I have tried Movie Maker and it does work but unfortunately on my (slow) XP machine it is the slowest converter. It gives me completion times of 6-9 hours for a 2 hour movie. This would work for the occassional show or movie but not for regular use.

  

Richard 

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