Mpeg Layer 3

[Clarky_man]

I tried playing a video the sound was all distorted so i installed Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder. Now i have no sound what so ever.

I am tring to play the video in quicktime and it says video format is - sorenson video 3, 320 X 180, Millions Mpeg Layer 3, Stereo, 44100 khz

Is it the right sound codec?

[celtic_druid]

Windows comes with an Fraunhofer IIS decoder anyway. Fact is though that quicktime doesn't make use of dshow/ACM decompressors or you mean they make a QT component? Can't see how dshow/acm would effect quicktime at all.

You could try something like Media Player Classic. ffdshow can handle sorenson 3 decoding.

[sanjayk]

You could also try VLC player.

[mikiem]

If it helps...
There's a few versions of the mp3 codec windows uses, and wrong one can easily get set as default -- running install of wmplayer puts things back.

[Cornucopia]

You have a quicktime MOV file. I know this because your video codec is Sorenson3. This is only available via Quicktime.
The audio portion of that quicktime movie is mp3.
Quicktime only has 1 mp3 encoder/decoder. It is made by fraunhoeffer and is built into the basic quicktime install. You can't change or overwrite this.
The only way you can play this on a PC is either with QT (basic player or pro, doesn't matter) or with the (hacked) Quicktime Alternative. This just has all the same building blocks of quicktime and then reroutes the final decoded streams through DirectShow. MPC or ffdshow shouldn't be able to handle Quicktime at all either, unless QTA or some similar "shunt" driver was installed.

Which one do you have?

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edit: VLC and ffmpeg are also supposed to decode this, but it looks like they have reverse engineered decoding both the QT movie stream container format and the Sorenson codec format, so they might not be particularly stable. Also, changes in the QT file format this last year with QT version7 may have thrown a big wrench into the works--particularly with respect to audio.