WMP can't play with more than one audio

[viol]

Hi there, first post, first question.
I am learning how to encode DivX movies. Doom9's guides, and others, are being invaluable. But I have one problem (well, more than one but this post is about one of them).
When the original DVD movie has more than one audio track, I mean, it has the main audio and let's say a Director's comments audio track, I like to encode both audio tracks in the .avi file so I can select which one I want to listen easily.
Using Gordian Knot, it's easy to do this. In one movie, I encoded three audio tracks, using VirtualDubMod directly.
Then comes the problem. If I use Media Player Classic to play such movies, I have no problem at all but if I try to use Windows Media Player (currently, I have the series 9 one), WMP will NOT play them, WMP will give me that "WMP has encountered a problem and needs to close" message and it will then close. Note that WMP plays my encoded movies if they have just one audio track.
Does anyone know of this problem? Why WMP can't play movies encoded with more than one audio track? Any idea?

[manono]

Hello, and welcome to the forum-

Does anyone know of this problem?

Yes, it's not just you. Mine (WMP8) screws up slightly differently, though. It plays both audio tracks simultaneously. Lame.

Why WMP can't play movies encoded with more than one audio track?

Don't know; don't care. It's a bad player for any number of reasons. Why bother with it when there are many other perfectly good players (including the Media Player Classic that you mentioned) that don't have it's problems?

Maybe someone else can give you the reason it can't play .avis with 2 audio tracks.

[jggimi]

Moved to the AVI/DVD player forum.

[kheops]

you might also give bsplayer a try
http://www.bsplayer.org/

:)

[viol]

Actually, I was worried that my encoding had something wrong. Now that I know that WMP is to blame, not my enconding, I will not mind it. I like Media Player Classic and I can live very well without WMP.
Thanks.

[Tieum]

Hi Viol.





I had the same problem :( (WMP can't play movies encoded with more than one audio track).


Try to install Morgan Stream Switcher after the Gordian Codec Pack.