Xvid AC3 problems.

[obeseotron]

I recently downloaded a movie with the video track encoded in Xvid and the audio in AC3, and from the start I've had problems. At first WMP and Media Player 6.4 would both try to download some codec that didn't exist, and then just crash flat out on opening the file. I double checked to make sure I had Xvid installed, and then I installed the AC3 drivers from www.doom9.org and tried again. No crash, but the audio still wasn't working. I reinstalled the AC3 codec and installed ffdshow (a codec that has filters for just about all the MPEG4 video codecs) and restarted. Then it finally worked, but I tried the file again today and again there was no audio. Reinstalling the codecs didn't help this time, and now I don't know what to do. I feel like if i ripped all the codecs, filters and associated registry entries out it might fix the problem, but I have no idea how to do this. Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: obeseotron
I recently downloaded a movie with the video track encoded in Xvid and the audio in AC3, and from the start I've had problems. At first WMP and Media Player 6.4 would both try to download some codec that didn't exist, and then just crash flat out on opening the file. I double checked to make sure I had Xvid installed, and then I installed the AC3 drivers from www.doom9.org and tried again. No crash, but the audio still wasn't working. I reinstalled the AC3 codec and installed ffdshow (a codec that has filters for just about all the MPEG4 video codecs) and restarted. Then it finally worked, but I tried the file again today and again there was no audio. Reinstalling the codecs didn't help this time, and now I don't know what to do. I feel like if i ripped all the codecs, filters and associated registry entries out it might fix the problem, but I have no idea how to do this. Any ideas?
Thanks.

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