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Hi,

I've tested many different videos (MP4, MKV, MOV, MP3...) : no regression with avcodec !

Any idea why faad has been choosen as default decoder ?
Is it better than avcodec in some cases ?

Steve.

Eurêka, I found a solution ! :) From VLC UI: Tools/Preferences/Show settings: All/Input.Codecs/Video codecs/Preferred decoders list: avcodec => forces VLC to use "avcodec" instead of "faad" that, for dark reasons, fails in decoding audio stream of these videos. (inspired from thi...

Hi, So, is it possible to set VLC to behave like other players and ignore these errors ? How ? I can contact the e-learning web site to tell them their videos "have invalid data" but I need precise info. Could you give me significant lines of the log ? But I guess they're going to say: &qu...

FYI, I've tested the sample video with 7 players and can get the sound without any problem: - MS Media Player (included in W8.1) - Xbox Video (included in W8.1) - SM Player - DivX Player - GOM Player - KM Player - PotPlayer I hope we're going to find a solution. I would be sad to end a long love sto...

Here is the log: https://www.cjoint.com/doc/19_09/IItqFdPZwlZ_VlcLog.zip NB: I've deleted many lines "faad warning: Bitstream value not allowed by specification", replaced with "..." to shorten the log. Message window in VLC run from desktop: avcodec info: Using D3D11VA (Intel(R)...

Did you manage to get sound in your PC with the sample video file ?

Hi,

How can I redirect debug log to a file ?
I tried
vlc.exe.... >"debug_log.txt"
but the file is empty.

Thanks.

Steve.

Hello, I've a serious problem with many videos (e-learning videos downloaded from official site). Under Windows 8.1 + VLC 3.0.8 just installed, I've no sound (detected codec: mp4a). Same problem with portable VLC 3.0.7. No problem with other videos. Sample (2.8MB): ------------------- https://www.cj...