Samsung SVI Audio codec not recognised in VirtualDub

[gjdgjd]

The Samsung (portable device) media interface programme is not exactly wonderful but it has a useful facility to batch convert all manner of video file types to the Samsung SVI format. This could be quite helpful to me. This "controlled by Samsung" (!) format is actually just a renamed AVI file which uses XVid and MP3 compression (128/44.1). If you rename the SVI to AVI they play quite happily in any number of media players including Windows media player. Various utilities (including Mplayer (-identify)) confirm all this. My problem is that I might like to edit these in VirtualDub and this programme does not recognise the codec. It knows there is audio there and correctly reports some of the details but cannot play it (and obviously cannot export it). I have the Lame and Fraunhofer codecs installed (both visible in the codec listing of VirtualDub) but still no joy. File Information from VirtualDub reports:

Sampling Rate 44100Hz
Channels 2 (Stereo)
Sample precision 16-bit
Compression Unknown (tag 0055)
Preload skew 0 samples (0.00s)
# of frames 154414
Min/avg/max/total frame size 288/639/1337 (96509K)

Any suggestions?

Regards
gjdgjd

[jagabo]

Media players are good at recognizing files with the wrong extenstion. So the fact that WMP can play your SVI file after it's been rename AVI doesn't mean it's an AVI file.

But assuming the file is an AVI file (and if you can open it in VirtualDub it must be) you need an ACM decoder for the audio. Media players use DirectShow decoders. Tag 0x0055 is mp3, try Lame ACM.

[guns1inger]

Try loading it via an avisynth script using DirectShowSource()