Video, but no audio with some .avi files   

I've uploaded a lot of .avi files recently, and most of them have worked in 
WMPv11, but I've ran across a couple that have video, but absolutely no 
audio. I've noticed for those files that in the lower left corner "Acquiring 
codec" comes up, followed by "Codec acquired", but it doesn't work. I 
downloaded the latest DivX codec about half a week ago. I'm thinking this IS 
a codec problem, but I've really no idea what it could be. Other .avi files 
work great, but there's a couple that don't. I ran GSpot and it said I had 
the proper codecs installed to run both .avi's that weren't working, so I'm 
at a loss.

date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:35:00 -0700   author:   Rexicus

Re: Video, but no audio with some .avi files   

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:35:00 -0700, Rexicus
 wrote:

>I've uploaded a lot of .avi files recently, and most of them have worked in 
>WMPv11, but I've ran across a couple that have video, but absolutely no 
>audio. I've noticed for those files that in the lower left corner "Acquiring 
>codec" comes up, followed by "Codec acquired", but it doesn't work. I 
>downloaded the latest DivX codec about half a week ago. I'm thinking this IS 
>a codec problem, but I've really no idea what it could be. Other .avi files 
>work great, but there's a couple that don't. I ran GSpot and it said I had 
>the proper codecs installed to run both .avi's that weren't working, so I'm 
>at a loss.


This is a Mac WMP group (you're discussing a windows program though)

GSpot will also try to identify the audio codec - that's separate from
the video codec shown in the section on the right - in fact it's
directly above the "Proposed codec solutions and tests"

What audio codec does it list there ?

A file I tested here shows (for example) 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 and the
[VBR] box is highlighted to indicate variable bitrate encoding of the
audio (as opposed to [CBR] constant bitrate audio encoding)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:07:06 GMT   author:   Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]