No audio with AudioDub

[mel2000]

My AVI video containing xvid+mp3 plays fine along with its subtitle file in Media Player Classic and WMP. However, I'm having a problem getting audio returned when using the following Avisynth script:

mySub = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.srt"
myAud = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.avi"
myVid = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.avi"

audio = WavSource(myAud)
video = DirectShowSource(myVid, audio=false)

return AudioDub(video, audio).TextSub(mySub)

Any assistance with this issue greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Gavino]

What do you actually get?
- an error?
- silent audio?
- no audio at all?

What do you get if you just return 'audio'?

The script 'should' work, but is there some reason you can't just get video and audio together in a single call to AviSource or DirectShowSource, and avoid using AudioDub?

[mel2000]

If I end the script with:

return audio
or
return audio.TextSub(mySub)

I get the same error from VirtualDub:

"K:\app_data\Avisynth\myClip_subtitles.avs" does not have a video stream.

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The following script plays the audio, original video and subtitles correctly:

mySub = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.srt"
myVid = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.avi"

video = DirectShowSource(myVid, audio=true)

return video.TextSub(mySub)
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However, my real objective was to strip the original video and replace it with a black background along with the original audio and subtitles. After viewing an AviSource() example using BlankClip, I changed my original script to the following and it worked!

mySub = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.srt"
myVid = "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\vids\myClip.avi"

video = DirectShowSource(myVid, audio=true)

return AudioDub(BlankClip(video), video).TextSub(mySub)
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Thanks for your input Gavino. I still don't understand why the WavSource audio attempt didn't work, but I consider my problem solved.