ASF to Blackberry: Convert ASF(Advanced Streaming Format) video to Blackberry with River Past Crazi Video

What is ASF?

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework.

The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from digital media servers, HTTP servers, and local storage devices such as hard disk drives.

Launch Crazi Video

Install Crazi Video, launch Crazi Video.

Add File

Click on the "Add File" button on the tool bar. The standard file open dialog appears. Select "ASF - Advanced Streaming Format" in its "Files of type" combo box.

Select the file you want to convert and click "Open". The file will be added to the conversion file list.

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Select Blackberry Output

Click on the toggle in front of "Output Format" to expand the panel.

Select "Blackberry" as the device type.

Note, please make sure you have the latest QuickTime installed.

Change individual file settings

Select the file in the conversion list. An additional panel "Convert File" appears.

Click on the toggle to expand the panel.

If you want to extract the audio from the video, select "Audio" as the "Media Type".

The aspect ratio is retrieve from the original video file. In some cases, this value may be incorrect. To change it, you can either select from the list, or type in a value.

Select output directory

Expand the "Output Directory" panel. Use the "Browse" button to select an output directory.

If you have Blackberry connected, you can set the Sync Option to "Copy Files to Device Directly". Crazi Video will find the connected Blackberry phone and copy the converted files to the appropriate directories for playback.

You can also set the Sync Option to "Do not Sync" and manage the files yourself.

Convert

Click the "Convert" button on the tool bar.

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