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can't play mpeg2 w/ ac3 audio

jlatenight posted 2008 Oct 08 09:08

Hi all, hope someone can help...it's driving me crazy. I'm using Vista, and I have an Avermedia AVerTV Combo PCI-E M780 tuner card, and when I record something via the ATSC tuner into mpeg2 format using their aver Mediacenter software, I don't hear any audio when I play it back in either WMP11 or VLC media player. If I check out the file in gspot, it says the audio is AC3. If I look at the properties of the file in WMP11, it says there's no audio track....there's just a dash next to "audio codec:". I installed the AC3 filter, v1.51, and it didn't fix the problem. I think I'm using the wrong demultiplexer or something. How do I tell windows to use a different "gfraph" altogether (assuming that's the problem)?

Baldrick posted 2008 Oct 08 09:45

Have you tried repair it using for example videoredo (use the quickstream fix) ?

jlatenight posted 2008 Oct 08 10:04

Thanks Baldrick, I opened a test file I created (that doesn't play the sound) in VideoRedo and to my surprise, the audio plays in VideoRedo. I did the "Quickstream fix...", but I still cannot get sound from VLC media player or WMP11. If the audio plays in VideoRedo, what does that tell me? Here's more evidence: I don't think anything's wrong with the file, because I copied this test file to my laptop and it played no problem in WMP9 in XP using the InterVideo Video and AUdio decoders. I must have a decoder problem.

jlatenight posted 2008 Oct 09 18:50

*bump* (sorry) :oops: Can anyone help me out here? Any suggestions on how to fix this problem are greatly appreciated!! Anyone ever run into anything similar? How'd you fix it?

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