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| bobsobol |
| Posted: Sep 18 2002, 11:01 PM |
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I have recently been given an AVI file with the following showing in the properties page:-
Audio format
Windows Media Audio V2, 8.10 Kb/second, 44.100kHz, 16 bit, 2(Stereo)
Video format
Desc DIV3, FourCC DIV4, 352x240x29.970 DivX codec
This file plays video fine but most players will not acknolege the audio stream at all, the Windows Media Player goes off to Microsoft and downloads a codec even though I have the Windows Media Audio and Video codecs installed and then tells me the codec it's downloaded isn't appropriate for the file...
One might say *WTF* but that would be rood. I try not to use WMA or WMV unless produceing files of .wma .wmv or .asf type (ie not in AVI) so I have no idea what might be causing this, or how I might play, or re-encode this file.
Any suggestions?
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Sep 18 2002, 11:41 PM |
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At the risk of discussing illegal codecs, my guess is that the audio was compressed using "DivX ;-) Audio" which was an awful hack of WMA that only one person in the world ever used (the person who made that AVI you got  ).
If you do not have the DivX ;-) Audio codec installed, then maybe the fix is to install it (it comes with DivX 3.11), decompress the audio stream to a PCM WAV, then uninstall the codec and forget you ever heard of it.
If you do already have the DivX ;-) Audio codec, then I don't know what the fix would be. Do you have any program that can play the audio? If you can hear it then maybe you can just record it.
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| bobsobol |
| Posted: Sep 23 2002, 08:05 PM |
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Thanx for the quick reply.  I don't mind using beta codex but I didn't really want to get involved in Hacked codex. The cure seems to be to pass it through Micro$ofts very own GraphEdit from the Windows DirectX SDK.
Other readers may be interested to know.  |
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