No sound in WinFast using lame mp3 codec

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I have a Leadtek 2000XP Deluxe card. I use the lastest WinFast PVR app and their latest driver to capture TV shows. Whenever I try to capture using the lame encoder for audio, the resulting avi comes out without any audio. It's not that the audio isn't being played back, there is no audio track on the avi. I did notice there are 2 other mp3 settings that has the word "16 bit" in it. If I use those settings, the audio will be present. Anyone have any idea on why this is happening?

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[beamguy]

You are one step ahead of me. I cannot get the program to list the LAME MP3 codec at all! There is another MP3 codec, but the program simply crashes any time I attempt to use it with any audio quality worth considering.

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I have problems of WinFast crashing too on some of the selections in the list. I found if i disable fraunhofer codec, the list gets cut down in half.

anyone else have any experience or suggestions?

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[beamguy]

I use the PCM codec for sound, and the 3ivx codec for video. The resulting file is 50% audio in size, but it works... Later, if I choose to keep it, I use virtualdub to encode to a more efficient MP3 sound. I'm not sure that the LAME mp3 compression will run in real time on my PC.

[Toucanjoe]

I have the same card,I use AMCAP for captures it is similar to Virtual VCR.

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The problem with PCM or MS ADPCM is that the audio part of the video is too big. I like to "cap it and forget it" If I want to cap anything that I want to archive, I do it with uncompressed video/audio. And I like to stay with an app that's like a PVR. I built this pc so I don't have to buy a Tivo. I guess if there's a "Windows" app that have the functionality of a Tivo and supports this card, I'd switch.

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[tw1965a]

Guys:

1. Which MP3 CODEC you used ?
Mine is Fhg Radium MP3 codec v1.263
(904,328 Bytes, June 26, 1999)
and this CODEC is work fine with WinFast PVR.

2. The Windows XP build-in MPEG Layer-3 CODEC:
Sample Rate is up to 24KHz
Bit Rate is up to 56Kbps
>> I found if i disable fraunhofer codec, the list gets cut down in half.
This is normal.
And cut down in half ? 1/2 only ? mayber 1/3 or less!
Because the Windows XP's MP3 CODEC do not support 44.1KHz,
48KHz sample rate and bit rate is more than 56Kbps
(128Kbps,...384Kbps,....)

3. Use the Windows "Sound Recorder" to verify the problem
is caused by CODEC or WinFast PVR.
(Recording -> Stop -> Save As -> Convert -> MPEG Layer-3 ...)


4. Just like Windows "Sound Recorder",
You can only select "MPEG Layer-3".
You can not select "Windows XP MPEG Layer-3",
"Fhg Radium MP3", "LAME MP3", ...etc.
All these MP3 CODECs are combined into one "MPEG Layer-3"
for application.

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1. I'm using Lame mp3 codec. I chose lame cause it was supposedly the best sounding and uses the least cpu cycle. Can you provide a link for the Radium mp3 codec? Also, it radium cpu intensive?

2. for some reason I didn't have many built-in mp3 codecs from windows. perhaps xp provides more than w2k. I sampled it at 44.1 not 48, and I've tried lower ones too. no go

3. I can save as mp3 in sound recorder.

4. I don't have the "Windows XP MPEG Layer-3" selection. Just "MPEG Layer-3" selection. After selecting that, the buttom of the save as... dialog says using "lame...." I was able to save it as 44.1 128kbps stereo mp3

[tw1965a]

http://www.audconv.com/support.php

How to download and install the Radium MP3 codec?
http://www.audconv.com/Q1006.php

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tw1965a,
thanks for the links. I'll give it a try.

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