ARF files are what you get when you have a recorded WebEx session. ARF is a proprietary format. There is a player that you can download that lets you watch recorded WebEx sessions offline, at your leisure; but my idea of leisure is a comfy chair and a big screen.
Cisco does make available a conversion program that converts ARF to WMV; but they are rather queer WMVs. For one thing, the frame rate is 5/sec. For another, the audio is out of step with the video by minutes.
I've played these suckers in every player I can thing of, and the results are the same; so it's pretty clear that it's the WMVs that are the problem. Fortunately, I'm only interested in the slides; so there's no lip-synching involved.
Here's where it gets quite strange. PD12 displays a sound waveform towards the end (and again, I mean several minutes) of the audio track; but there's no sound. (I've confirmed that there's no sound by playing it in other programs.) It takes some vigorous chopping and sliding to get a decent result.
Has anyone had experience working with ARF files, or the WMV's that come from them?
Any suggestions? Jerry Schwartz