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Radish
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"Audio Codec Question"
, posted Sat 15 Mar 08:17
I've always had this problem, but lately it's been showing up more often. Sometimes when I download a movie off the internet, I get no sound at all, but when I check the file information, there is clearly an audio stream since it says "Audio 22kHtz 16bps" unless they just recorded silence. This happens most often with "You're Under Arrest" fan subs for some reason.
When I run the file in Media Player it tries to download some codec, but "fails to install." I can't believe people would bother encoding a video with no sound so I'm assuming the problem's on my end (although the file sizes are unusually small so it's not out of the question...). I went to Microsoft's site, and ran some of their error checking but it didn't help. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and if they knew how to fix it. Thanks
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Genjuro
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"Re(1):Audio Codec Question"
, posted Sat 15 Mar 08:27:
quote: I've always had this problem, but lately it's been showing up more often. Sometimes when I download a movie off the internet, I get no sound at all, but when I check the file information, there is clearly an audio stream since it says "Audio 22kHtz 16bps" unless they just recorded silence. This happens most often with "You're Under Arrest" fan subs for some reason.
When I run the file in Media Player it tries to download some codec, but "fails to install." I can't believe people would bother encoding a video with no sound so I'm assuming the problem's on my end (although the file sizes are unusually small so it's not out of the question...). I went to Microsoft's site, and ran some of their error checking but it didn't help. Just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and if they knew how to fix it. Thanks
If you're a windowsXP user you propably have Media Player 9(I'm not familiar with all the releases)..Anyway,since you mentioned fansubs,you can just install DivX and play the .avi movies with DivX's player(DivX 2 Alpha is the new one).Media Player is always a pain in the ass for example I had to install an old sound codec in my windows system directory to make it play sound on some movies(Evangelion episodes). What I reccomend is using DivX player for .avis and installing Media Player 7.1 for .mpegs.
official DivX site: www.divx.com
[this message was edited by Genjuro on Sat 15 Mar 08:33]
Radish
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"Re(2):Audio Codec Question"
, posted Sat 15 Mar 09:22
quote:If you're a windowsXP user you propably have Media Player 9(I'm not familiar with all the releases)..Anyway,since you mentioned fansubs,you can just install DivX and play the .avi movies with DivX's player(DivX 2 Alpha is the new one).Media Player is always a pain in the ass for example I had to install an old sound codec in my windows system directory to make it play sound on some movies(Evangelion episodes). What I reccomend is using DivX player for .avis and installing Media Player 7.1 for .mpegs.
official DivX site: www.divx.com
Yeah, I tried using DivX playa, Sasami, WinAmp and media player and it's the same in all of them. I have it narrowed down to either the encoder didn't record the sound (which I find unlikely since this happens on several different series) and that I don't have some obscure audio codec.
Satoshi_Miwa
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"Re(3):Audio Codec Question"
, posted Sat 15 Mar 11:47
I've run into that problem myself. What's happened is somebody has encoded the audio using a form of Windows Media player instead of in mp3 format.
The solution I used was to download the NIMO codec pack, and just installed the audio drivers. Doing that should enable you to listen to audio...
Radish
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"Re(4):Audio Codec Question"
, posted Sat 15 Mar 17:18
quote: I've run into that problem myself. What's happened is somebody has encoded the audio using a form of Windows Media player instead of in mp3 format.
The solution I used was to download the NIMO codec pack, and just installed the audio drivers. Doing that should enable you to listen to audio...
Excellent. I just installed it and it works! Thanks a bunch!
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