Hello: I had downloaded movies for months and they all played perfectly fine. Today for some reason nothing will play with sound. The sound is working, cause mp3's and games have sound, but my downloaded divx/xvid movies have NO sound at all. I tried to re-install ffdshow, but i keep getting error messages that say cannot open ffdshow.ax or something like that. The last movie I downloaded was in ac3 audio format, and it did not play sound. So i downloaded the ac3 audio filter and installed it, but still no audio, and then all my other divx's that had working audio before now have no sound. help!
Just a follow up to my old message. I loaded ALL my divx movies in Gspot, and rendered them. Every time I got an error that there are audio problems. This is weird cause i have opened my divx movies in Gspot before and these errors did not exist. Could this be a computer problem somewhere? Even weirder, is that my movies play fine with sound ONLY in DiVX player that I downloaded with the latest codec bundle. They no longer have audio in WIndows media player and Windvd. Anybody know whats going on?
Hi! My advice -- stay away from "codec bundles" (Nimo etc) -- likely that's where your problem lies. Some of them are bundled with angelpotion or the like. Try uninstalling your codec "bundles" -- and replace this with just the codecs you need: VIDEO 1) latest DivX (from Divx networks). 2) Xvid -- go with the latest even if it's a "beta". 3) original Divx 3.11 alpha (high and low motion codecs) ONLY if you plan to encode with them. If decoding is your only requirement then Divx5.x is backward compatible and you don't need to install 3.11 4) other codecs only if you get a video with them (the author should tell you but stay away from angelpotion! AUDIO: 1) AC3 filter 2) Ogg vorbis codec VORBIS: Ogg vorbis direct show filter -- needed if you get vorbis media, which may have an avi extension and be thus disguised. SUBTITLES: Subtitle filter (helpful if you eithr get a sub-rip file with the video or play vorbis media with embedded subs) FFDSHOW -- I have it (no problems) but I think it's optional. You should have most of the rest of your codecs already installed with the system -- If you want a good "codec pack" check out the Gordian Knot people.
Sorry guys, I did all that and still no audio. I had all those codecs installed perfectly before, and the movies played fine, until for no reason audio just isn't playing in Windvd or Windows Media Player. I am starting to have problems with DiVX player too, like the movie crashes or freezes with funny colors and stuff now (it never used to before). I ran avifix on my files and it still does the same thing. Found something interesting, when Windvd cannot play the movie with sound, and I close the program, there is a "not responding" error behind it, it says "Windvd MFC is not responding" blah blah do you want to sent this report to microsoft. Does Windvd MFC have anything to do with my files playing correctly? And if so, how to I get it to respond without crashing? Finally, I think the time my movies stopped playing with sound was at the same time I downloaded a movie with AC3 audio for the first time (but I am not sure). would that have any impact?
Tried that already, no dice. It's not just windvd that's not working, Windows media player is messed up too. The only thing that works is Divx Player. WMP is so messed up that it won't play ANY media at all. Actually it will play small mpeg's, but never with sound. When I try to load up a divx, it says on the bottom "error downloading codec," then I get an error message that says Windows Media player has to close. Every other type of media I get a "windows media player cannot play this type of file" error, even with mp3's now. It just keeps getting consistantly worse as time goes on. I tried reinstalling WMP too, still no luck. I might try to reinstall Windows XP again, just to see if some .dll's were messed or something. Any ideas on what to do would be great.
It is a problem with your AC3 Filter (Dolby Decoder). Install this one here: http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/ ... and you should be fine.
