VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

For questions and discussion that is NOT (I repeat NOT) specific to a certain Operating System.
jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 07 May 2011 12:13

Any video I record with my miniDV videocamera THOMSON vmd712, VLC 1.9 reproduces the video correctly but the sound plays weird. This is the AVI file codec information scanned with GSpot:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S1JQ3F4K

The avi file comes in the original format, captured directly from my videocamera using the firewire cable, so I haven't saved it to another format.

Windows Media Player plays the AVI file correctly. Why VLC isn't capable of playing the audio correctly?

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Site Administrator
Site Administrator
Posts: 37523
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 15:29
VLC version: 4.0.0-git
Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac
Location: Cone, France
Contact:

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 May 2011 00:42

Please share the file.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan
VLC media player developer, VideoLAN President and Sites administrator
If you want an answer to your question, just be specific and precise. Don't use Private Messages.

jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 22 May 2011 11:48

Sorry about the delay.
All the videos I have from my videocamera are more than 4Gb and I can't find my firewire cable to capture a short one, so I have cuted the first 60.000.000 bytes (60 mb) of one of my AVI files and saved it to a new file.

This is the link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J4V9RX5W

The bug is reproducible (audio doesn't play correctly in VLC and perfect in WMP), but now VLC displays that the AVI file is broken (logically).

jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 24 May 2011 21:30

jb, as you know the problem is in the AVI header, because if you save the AVI with VirtualDub using "Direct Stream Copy" (to not recode) in Audio and Video to a new one, the resulting AVI file is perfectly readable by all players (because VirtualDub rewrites the file header and frames and audio are exactly the same). So, why other players reproduce the audio correctly and not VLC? Do you know something? Looks like VLC has problems reading some AVI headers or something

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Site Administrator
Site Administrator
Posts: 37523
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 15:29
VLC version: 4.0.0-git
Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac
Location: Cone, France
Contact:

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 May 2011 11:35

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan
VLC media player developer, VideoLAN President and Sites administrator
If you want an answer to your question, just be specific and precise. Don't use Private Messages.

jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 04 Jul 2012 08:11

This was set to "fixed" some weeks ago. VLC 2.0.2 (last version) breaks this... Can be a regression bug or it not was really successfully fixed? I have reopened the ticket:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4828

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Site Administrator
Site Administrator
Posts: 37523
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 15:29
VLC version: 4.0.0-git
Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac
Location: Cone, France
Contact:

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 04 Jul 2012 15:44

No. It was fixed for 2.1, not in 2.0.2
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan
VLC media player developer, VideoLAN President and Sites administrator
If you want an answer to your question, just be specific and precise. Don't use Private Messages.

jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 05 Jul 2012 14:04

Yes, sorry. I have checked it, and it is fixed in VLC 2.1!

jomalin
Blank Cone
Blank Cone
Posts: 22
Joined: 13 Apr 2011 10:12

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby jomalin » 28 Oct 2012 17:12

Hey! Regression bug. The last VLC 2.1.0 (nightly build) fails again with that:
http://streams.videolan.org/issues/4828/test.avi

Audio is not well played

Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Site Administrator
Site Administrator
Posts: 37523
Joined: 22 Jul 2005 15:29
VLC version: 4.0.0-git
Operating System: Linux, Windows, Mac
Location: Cone, France
Contact:

Re: VLC doesn't play AVI audio correctly

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 29 Oct 2012 11:24

works fine here with VLC 2.1 from trunk on Linux.

What version exactly did you use?
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/category/Videolan
VLC media player developer, VideoLAN President and Sites administrator
If you want an answer to your question, just be specific and precise. Don't use Private Messages.


Return to “General VLC media player Troubleshooting”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 30 guests