I've got two AVI files that are driving me nuts! Both play fine via Windows Media Player but when I try to convert them to DIVX format to play on my Phillips Divx/DVD player via VirtualDub, I get error messages to the effect that VirtualDub can't find the codecs to decode the audio. Stranger still is that Gspot reports the necessary codecs are indeed installed on my system. The quirky audio on one file is reported by Gspot as being "MPEG Layer 2 0x0050" and the other quirky audio is reported as "MPEG Layer 3 0x0055."
I've converted several hundred AVI files using VirtualDub and have never run into this problem before. Any clues as to what I need to install to get VirtualDub to stop choking on these two audio formats? FWIW, I have the latest K-Lite codec pack installed.
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You say you are trying to convert .avi files to divx files? Isn't that the same format?
What's the exact message you are getting? I assume that you are not trying to JOIN them together
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Do this for each AVI file:
Load the AVI file into GOLDWAVE and save the audio as a 16-bit 48k 2 channel PCM WAV audio file.
Close GOLDWAVE.
Now use GOLDWAVE (re-open it) or whatever tool you normally use to create a new audio file to be used with the AVI file. I suggest 192kbps CBR MP3 or 192kbps AC-3 etc. I normally go with AC-3 audio and one popular AC-3 encoder (which is freeware) would be ffmpegGUI. For MP3 I use GOLDWAVE although there are other options.
Now open the AVI with AviMux GUI and you should be able to DEMUX the video file. Please note that you can demux the audio file this way but the GOLDWAVE method seems to work best when the audio file is MP2 or MP3.
Now you have a separate AVI file (with video only) and a separate audio file. You can now open the video only AVI file with VirtualDub (I like to use VirtualDubMod myself) and go ahead and re-encode to DivX or whatever. When you are done you can do the muxing of the video and audio with VirtualDub(Mod) or use AviMux GUI.
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Originally Posted by CBC
However fixing the audio and remuxing with the original video may be enough to "fix it".
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Originally Posted by FulciLives
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Originally Posted by CBC
divx is one of nearly 100 avi codecs and is non descriptive.
http://www.jmcgowan.com/avi.html
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While technicaly true, most divx and or xivd files that I've come across both have an .avi container.
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Originally Posted by FulciLives
By the way, there's actually no need to create a "video only" file as you mentioned in your process. Once you have a WAV file you want to mux with an existing video, VirtualDub allows you to substitute that WAV for the existing "source" audio. -
Originally Posted by CBC
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Hi,
You need to go to free-codecs.com and download the Tsunami Filter pack and then install the Q-Design MPEG-2 Codec ONLY. I had the same 0x0050 problem with AVI's with .mp2 Audio in VDub and this totally fixed the problem. The Tsunami Installer will ask you what Codecs you want to install so make sure you don't install any other Codecs or you could run into trouble.My Site: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
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Originally Posted by Oz0851
I find that GOLDWAVE has no issues when other audio programs (I've tried both Audacity and SoundForge) do have issues.
GOLDWAVE is a bit "golden" in this way
So to be completely clear ... I have encountered such problem AVI files before. These files would not work with Audacity nor SoundForge but worked A-OK with GOLDWAVE.
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try to separate the audio and video and identify which is causing the problem, only thing i can tell is its due to the encoding software that has been used.
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Just wanted to thank everyone for their advice. I did download the Tsunami codec pack as well as Goldwave, but before I tried either of them, just for the heck of it, I loaded the files into Dr. Divx and tried using it to do the conversion. For reasons I still do not understand, Dr. Divx did not choke on the audio at all and converted both files without a hitch.
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