Can not de-mux .avi/XviD

[tomeczek]

Can not de-mux or even play .avi file.

I downloaded two .avi files of the "The Pianist" movie :). The file information you can see below:

File Name: The.Pianist.CD1.DVDRip.SCREENER.XviD-QiX.avi

File Format:Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI)
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Web Site: www.microsoft.com

Content: Video and Audio
Duration: 1 hr 10 min 6 sec
Data Rate: 624 x 336, 23.976 fps
Audio Info: 48000 Hz, 448.0 kbps, stereo

Video Format: unknown
FourCC: "xvid"
This may be a new or proprietary format.
Check http://www.webartz.com/fourcc/fcccodec.htm for the FourCC code.

Audio Format: DVM
Format ID: 0x2000
Author:

The Windows Media Player 9 (I’m running XP-Pro) failed – did not have XviD codec. I installed the latest version of XviD (build 120302). When starting Windows Media Player it is “Sending request for codec” and than it fails with “Error downloading codec”. But the movie plays. NO AUDIO though…

Next I tried to de-mux the movie using TMPGEnc ver. 2.59.47. Most of the times it fails, but when it doesn’t, it produces .m2v and .wav. The .wav has NO AUDIO.

I must be missing something :confused:. Any ideas?

[LeonMcNichol]

A.) Have you tried to open the file in virtualdub? It is possible that your file is corrupted and virtualdub will tell you.
B.) Looks like your audio is ac3, which would need an avi ac3 decoder. Which would also be the reason why you couldn't play it in wmp.
C.) If it is ac3, just open the file in virtualdub, and save to wav (don't try to do uncompressed). This'll demux to wav, then just rename wav to ac3 and use either besweet or headac3 to convert to wav. Then save the video to direct stream copy and audio to no audio and save the avi. Then you can open the avi and wav in TMPGEnc.

[bb]

1. Don't use MediaPlayer9, use MediaPlayer 6.4 instead (much less CPU consuming). You'll find it as mplayer2.exe somewhere in the windows directory (do a search).
2. Try to install the audiofilters package from doom9's download section (you'll probably need iviaudio.ax).
3. TMPGEnc is the wrong tool for your purpose. Use VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod.
4. You posted in the wrong thread. Your problem has nothing to do with TMPGEnc.

Cheers,
bb

[tomeczek]

Thank you guys!
Installing AC3 filter did it. My AVI file now plays both video and audio. :)

@bb
Sorry, if I post it in the wrong forum... I will post the follow-up in "DVD encoding" forum.