Problem in decoding audio in WMV3 video file

[sapfeer]

Hi!

I have a problem with playing wmv(WMV3) video. Any of players, I've tried (VLC, KMPlayer, Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic), play only video but no sound, sometimes at all, sometime just a few minutes. Here the information about this video file from KMPlayer:

   General 
      Complete name : Introduction-1.wmv 
      Format : Windows Media 
      File size : 370 MiB 
      Duration : 31mn 17s 
      Overall bit rate mode : Variable 
      Overall bit rate : 1 654 Kbps 
      Maximum Overall bit rate : 9 564 Kbps 
      Encoded date : UTC 2008-06-05 13:38:39.768 
   Video #2 
      ID : 2 
      Format : VC-1 
      Format profile : MP@HL 
      Codec ID : WMV3 
      Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 9 
      Codec ID/Hint : WMV3 
      Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 - Professional 
      Duration : 31mn 17s 
      Bit rate mode : Variable 
      Bit rate : 5 000 Kbps 
      Width : 1 680 pixels 
      Height : 1 050 pixels 
      Display aspect ratio : 1.600 
      Frame rate : 15.000 fps 
      Nominal frame rate : 29.970 fps 
      Resolution : 24 bits 
      Scan type : Progressive 
      Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.189 
      Stream size : 1.09 GiB 
      Language : English (US) 
   Audio #1 
      ID : 1 
      Format : WMA3 
      Format profile : M1 
      Codec ID : 162 
      Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio 3 
      Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 10 Professional - 384 kbps, 48 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit 2-pass VBR 
      Duration : 31mn 17s 
      Bit rate mode : Variable 
      Bit rate : 305 Kbps 
      Channel(s) : 2 channels 
      Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz 
      Resolution : 24 bits 
      Stream size : 68.4 MiB (18%) 
      Language : English (US)

Also I've tried play this file in different OS, Ubuntu with Medibuntu package and w32codec package installed and in Windows with the latest K-Lite Codec Pack, but these actions had no effect.

Any comments and recommendations how can I play such file are greatly appreciated...

[Baldrick]

You could try reconvert the audio to wma2, see https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/310333-How-to-change-audio-codec-in-WMV-video-from-...=1#post1914340

And I guess you have tried play with latest wmp 12?

[sapfeer]

No, I've tried with previous version of WMP. I'll try to play it in the newest version.
Does Windows Media Encoder support batch encoding or command line options?..

[sapfeer]

By the way, since I'm using Microsoft Windows XP SP3, WMP 12 is not the best for me, Microsoft says

[sapfeer]

Windows Media Encoder was unable to convert my file, saying that "The given unit is corrupted, badly formatted, or otherwise not valid"... I'm stucked...
In any cases, converting is very time consuming process for me...

Is there any other way to play this kind of file?..

[El Heggunte]

Try demuxing the file with AsfBin. Normally, you should get a .WMV (video only) and a
.WMA (audio only). If this latter isn't "playable",
then the source file is really corrupt or something.

[sapfeer]

Try demuxing the file with AsfBin. Normally, you should get a .WMV (video only) and a
.WMA (audio only). If this latter isn't "playable",
then the source file is really corrupt or something.

Unfortunately, this is the case: asf file, result of AsfBin processing, is still being played the same way... I will try to download it once again.