no sound from avi files

[junglejim]

I HAVE VISTA HOME PREMIUM,ON TOSHIBA SATELLITE. UNTILL A FEW DAYS AGO
EVERYTHING WAS WORKING FINE. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN MEDIA PLAYER WOULD NOT PLAY
SOUND FROM AVI VIDEO FILES. THE SOUND WORKS FINE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE, JUST
NO SOUND FROM VIDEO FILES. WHATS WRONG??? THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

WHAT AUDIO CODEC DO THOSE FILES USE?
WHERE DID YOU GET THESE FILES FROM?

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

What audio codec do your clips use?
Are you using Vista or Vista SP1? SP1 should work better with digital
camera AVIs (some digital camera AVIs use bad-ish data formats which can
lead to no audio being played - SP1 has a work-around allowing those strange
AVIs to work).

 

[Lester Stiefel]

Can anyone shed any light on this problem? Possibly a system restore
back to last year maybe?

Pur lease

Please post what the filename(s) are? Give us an
example file name. The trouble with some AVIs is that the
person that encoded (recorded) them may have used an add-on
codec (sometimes divx is used for video and a52/ac3 for audio)

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

You likely couldn't actually deduce the codecs used from a picture or from
the filename - you could use a tool such as GSpot Codec Appliance to show
that data, though. =\

Or if you put up a sample AVI showing this issue, that would be easy enough
to check the headers for and determine the codecs in question.

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Hi Lester'[image:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/madsam106/avifile3.jpg]'
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/madsam106/avifile3.jpg), the
files are video clip (avi). None of my videos on my computer now play
with sound!!

mad sam wrote:> > >
example file name. The trouble with some AVIs is that the
person that encoded (recorded) them may have used an add-on
codec (sometimes divx is used for video and a52/ac3 for audio)