VOX codec

[t0y]

Hi!

I recently got a DivX movie but the players say that the audio codec is not installed, or dont play sound at all...

To find out which coded it used, I extracted the wav using virtualdub and checked the header. In this header I can read "VOXk" which I think is the codec in question..

Does anyone know where I can obtain this codec? I searched the web and only found a .VOX player...

Help!

Thanks

[MaTTeR]

A quick search on the web and I found this-

http://www.carte.net/mark/voxaudio.htm

[t0y]

Thanks, but this is the .vox player I mentioned... :(
It doesn't play the .wav file with the VOX data..

[LigH]

If it is the VoxWare ACM codec (rather rarely used, only good for speech encoding, rather phone quality), it could be installed with the MediaPlayer, or with the Windows Media Tools - unfortunately I'm not sure.

Audio codecs use a number as ID (instead of a FourCC, as video codecs do) - are you able to tell us which codec number is reported? I just hope that VirtualDub will report this numerical ID for unknown codecs in the File Info report. Or you can send me the wave header (e.g. as hex dump or short file - max. 1 KB - per PM) and I'll try to find out.

[t0y]

I don't have it with me right now..
I'll post it or send it to you tomorrow

Thanks for your help

[t0y]

I used virtualdub as you suggested and this is what I found:

Compression: Unknown Tag(0161)

Since you asked for the .wav header i'm sending it through the e-mail on your homepage. I cut it down to the beggining of the data chunk, so I hope all info is included.

I don' think it's a coded that belongs to media player, because i've tried using media player's auto codec download and it didn't work...


Thanks for your help!

[LigH]

Codec ID 0161 is Windows Media V2 - or DivX audio V2.

After installing DivX ;-) 3.11 alpha, you'll have a start menu entry called "DivX ;-) MPEG-4 Video codec", there you shall find the entry "Run Me First !!" which is linked to the application "Register_DivX.exe". This will install and register the hacked Radium version of the Fraunhofer MP3 codec and the DivX audio codecs, which are hacked versions of Windows Media Audio (the original WMA codecs can't be used in AVIs, only in ASF like formats).

The fact that you found some text reading "VOXk" is more or less an incident; ACM codecs are identified by numbers, not FourCC's. Wish you good luck!

[t0y]

Basic solution to dumb question...
I never thought about the hacked codec included in divx3.11, and I only had DivX 4 installed..

Sorry for your trouble.
Thanks!!