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| Unofficial VirtualDub Support Forums > Codec Discussion > Can't Convert To Mp3 Audio, Please Help A Newbie. |
| Posted by: wesblake Mar 14 2003, 05:42 AM |
| Ok, so I'm trying to cram as many of my cartoons onto one disc, so I'm chopping off stuff, and I have a couple that have Windows Media Audio V2 rather than MP3 audio so they are like 50 MB larger than the others. I tried to convert it (By setting video to direct stream and audio to full processing, then selecting mp3 as my compression, is that even correct?) but when I go to Save AVI I get an error saying "Error initializing audio stream decompression: The requested conversion is not possible Check to make sure you have the required codec." I looked at the help and saw something about not being able to ENCODE using WMA V2, but wouldn't I be DECODING it? |
| Posted by: phaeron Mar 14 2003, 06:29 AM |
| The locking in the WMA codecs inhibits both compression and decompression. It's likely that your file was actually encoded with "DivX Audio," which is a hacked version of WMAv2. Unfortunately, this hack has the same ID as the regular WMAv2 codec and thus output from one can show up as being from the other. |
| Posted by: wesblake Mar 14 2003, 06:40 AM |
| Thanks. And I'm guessing there's no way around it then? Gonna have to keep the audio that's there? |
| Posted by: ChristianHJW Mar 14 2003, 11:16 AM |
| You could try to get a copy of the old, illegal DivX3 codec that was coming with afore mentioned hack of WMA, and install it ... |