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JohnWayne

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Registered: 2014-06-15

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Possible Codec Issues?

I have some video files that I'm trying to convert to .ogg or .mp3

They play fine in Video under Gnome 3.12, but they're all messed up when I load them into AVIDEMUX or AUDACITY.
They either have garbled audio or they skip.

I've checked that I have FFMpeg installed / however gstreamer-FFMpeg is not.

Any ideas why Playback in Video works, but under the editing programs I'm having problems?

Thanks.

karol

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Re: Possible Codec Issues?

Works for me.
Is there anything interesting in the logs or in the console when you start audacity from the terminal?

JohnWayne

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Re: Possible Codec Issues?

Audacity makes several ALSA references, but I'm on PulseAudio.

Both Gnome Video & Banshee play the file correctly however GVideo says the audio track is Vorbis and Banshee says it's MPEG1 layer1.
I didn't encode the original files, seems as though the metadata is corrupt.

Perhaps there's a way to just point the output of Banshee or Gnome Video to a file?

Last edited by JohnWayne (2014-06-15 21:19:06)

karol

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Re: Possible Codec Issues?

Perhaps there's a way to just point the output of Banshee or Gnome Video to a file?

Try the usual

'command' > 'file' 2>&1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6674 … ut-to-file

JohnWayne

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Registered: 2014-06-15

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Re: Possible Codec Issues?

Perhaps there's a way to just point the output of Banshee or Gnome Video to a file?

Try the usual

'command' > 'file' 2>&1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6674 … ut-to-file

The result from terminal plays the file, but writes a 0 byte file as output. I'm thinking I'm going to have to use something like ardour that can reroute the audio to the file.