WinFF_dvr-ms to XVID_no sound when played back by Linksys extender dma2100

[Ang]

Hello all:
I converted some tv shows that were in dvr-ms format to XVID with WinFF. They look and sound perfect on my computer but when I play them with my Linksys DMA2100 media extender I get no sound except a little chirp every now and then. Anyone else had this problem or now what might be the problem?

[Baldrick]

What audio codec are you using? I guess mp3 is the default in winff for xvid. You could try copy the audio if it's ac3.

[Ang]

Well, it looks like it's the internal ffmpeg codec "libmp3lame". Here is the audio line from the winff preset;

-acodec libmp3lame -ar 48000 -ab 128k -ac 2

I am thinking that my dma 2100 can't read the output from this codec. I don't know what you mean when you say to copy the audio if it's ac3.
I know a little about all this but I'm no expert...that's why I'm using winff!!! What a great and simple program.
I was thinking i could try to use lame_enc.dll, so I put the dll in the same folder as winff and substituted it for libmp3lame in the command line preset. But that didn't work, ffmpeg couldn't find lame_enc.dll. Kinda stuck here........

[Baldrick]

By copy I mean that you will not reconvert the audio, just leave at as ac3 in the avi. Change the preset to "-acodec copy" instead of "-acodec libmp3lame".

Or try change to -ar 44000 audio and see if it works better.

[Ang]

I tried to copy the ac3 audio but wound up with a file that was 190MB out of a 54MB scource file....everytime explorer went to that dir it crashed had to delete it in safe mode. I tried 44000 but that must be a unworkable bitrate and the encoder wouldn't do anything...i tried 44100 and it did encode but still will not play through the extender. mmmmmmmm.