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[thecrow]

In my collection of video clips I have some .asf files.
When I look in the auto import settings I do not see .asf files listed as an option for importing.
And when I run import it does not pickup any of these files.
Is there a way I can change this?
Or an alternate way of importing these files?

[~OHM~]

are you sure it's not bundled with windows media? in tools>options>file types>other

[thecrow]

Maybe I am not understanding you correctly.
Yes .asf files are included in the file types pane you mention, but I think that just says JRiver is capable of playing those files.
And infact JRiver has no issue playing them if I right click on a file in Windows Explorer and chose open with JRiver MC.
BUT they are not imported into my library when I run import on the folders containing the .asf files.
Other files in the same folders are imported but not asf files.

[blgentry]

I haven't seen an ASF file extension in at least 7 or 8 years.  So I looked it up because I couldn't remember what flavor of Microsoft video file an ASF really was.

The answer is surprising:  ASF seems to just be a synonym for WMV files.  According to this wiki article, they are the same thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format

How about renaming a couple of your ASF files as WMV?  Then see what MC does with them.

Brian.

[thecrow]

Yes they are basically an old way of saying .wmv.
And renaming them to .wmv does then allow MC to import them & play them.
But I have 339 files in various folders, so doing that one by one is not an option.
If they were all in the same folder then I could "rename *.asf *.wmv" but I don't know how to do that recursively.

[thecrow]

Sorted it.
TAO1857 was pointing me in the right direction but I was slow to twig what I needed to do.
.asf files are not classified as video files but as "other" files and I just needed to select them in the import settings under other.