I'm trying to get some avi's to play through a D-Link DSM-320 media streamer. I've found that encoding them as xvids & using the LameMP3 audio codec works well (also on a Pinnacle ShowCenter).
Most of the files I've converted (or ripped then converted) have been no problem. However I've found some that are a problem & wont play on the D-Link machine.
G-Spot reports that all of them contain MPEG-2 Layer 3 audio. Gspot also reports the presence of a suitable codec & I can play the files on my PC no problem. I initially tried converting them to xvids with LameMP3 audio. The resulting avi file has no sound when played on the pc and wouldn't play on the D-Link machine.
I then tried encoding them with no audio compression (they will then play correctly on both of the media streamers & the pc) but of course the file-size is then enormous.
I tried encoding the (uncompressed audio) avi with Lame MP3 ausio & again, the sound is lost.
As you can probably tell I'm fairly new to this so have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.....
Install Lame ACM CODEC. Open the avi in virtualdub and select video/direct stream copy. Select Audio/full processing,
Audio/compression/LAME ACM and on the right side, pick the bitrate.
CBR works best.
Originally posted by davexnet: Install Lame ACM CODEC. Open the avi in virtualdub and select video/direct stream copy. Select Audio/full processing,
Audio/compression/LAME ACM and on the right side, pick the bitrate.
CBR works best.
Thats exactly what I've been doing though. The resultant avi file has no sound.
If I select uncompressed ausio the sound is there no problem, but with huge file-sizes. I've reencoded several dozen files from other audio codecs, the only ones that seem to give a problem are the ones with Mpeg-2 Layer 3 audio.
Extracting the sound with Audacity and adding it again in virtualdub did work. The sound has regular momentary interference, similar to what you might get if, say, turning on a satellite box when your sound system is already on, i.e. a momentary (but loud) crackle.
The interference is in the extracted audio so hopefully I just need to change the way I used Audacity, will try later.
The spikes / interference in the mp3 extracted by Audacity made it unusable. They were present immediately after opening the avi to extract the audio.
I extracted a wav file with virtualdub which played fine on the PC but when added back in (with virtualdub) lost the sound. The solution seems to be;
Open the file in virtualdub & extract a wav file.
Open the wav in audacity & reencode it into mp3.
Add the audio back into the file with virtualdub.
The results play fine on the PC and the D-Link machine (havn't tried the pinnacle one yet but it seems to play most stuff (apart from dolby!)). Haven't watched a whole file to check for sync errors but a quick skip through one seems to show no problems.
