Weird Audio Playback Trouble

Stormblade

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Nov 10, 2000
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Hey all,

Ok, I downloaded a Divx Video a long time ago. I remember playing this video and hearing the sound fine. Now, however, when playing the video back the sound is...stuttery..for lack of a better word.

I tried the video under Windows media Player (Both the older 6.4 as well as version 8 ) and the Divx Player. Same results. Video plays fine, audio is messed up.

Virtual Dub gives me the same audio troubles. Here's the Audio Stream information Virtual Dub gives:

Sampling Rate: 8000Hz
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Sample precision: 4-bit
Compression: Microsoft ADPCM CODEC
Preload Skew: 0 samples (0.00s)

Under Windows Media Player 6.4 the Filters in use are:

Default DirectSound Device
DivX Decoder Filter
VIdeo Renderer
Under Filter Properties for the DirectSound Device I get:
wFormatTag: 1
nChannels: 1
nSamplesPerSec: 8000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 16000
nBlockAlign: 2
Rate: 1.00

Under Windows Media Player 8 the Audio Codec is listed as Unknown.

Now, I remember that some time in the past I was able to play this video with the audio playing just fine. I'm guessing it's a missing audio codec and that the default one doesn't cut it. I've tried playing this file on another computer that didn't have the codecs I have installed on this machine. Not surprisingly it didn't play the video since it didn't have the codec but the audio was still messed up which made me think that perhaps it's a missing codec or something but I have no clue now as to what to do to fix this.

Any help would be most appreciated :)