sound problems with xvid

[bierre40]

Hello,

i'm having sound problems with the xvid codec when i'm playing movies. I tried every possible codec (video xvid..and sound acm,, mp3...) but nothing works. the problem is that i have a smooth immage, but the sound is cracky. It's synchronized with the the image but the quality is bad. I'm having a winXP professional amd 1700+ with tnt2 m64 32 MB. My sound card is a hercules muse 5.1 dvd. When i remove the Xvid codec and i only play the sound, than the quality is normal.
playing divx is no problem.
PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!

[Toast B|M]

open the file in gspot or virtualdub>file information and see what it says.
post the info here.

[bierre40]

i just tried G-spot:

video codec is Xvid and it's installed
audio codec is mpeg layer-3 decoder and is installed
birate 138Kb/s 48000 Hz
directshow reported no errors

any ideas??????

[Enchanter]

Try using FFDShow to decode the XviD video.

[bierre40]

no, still the same effect.

there one file, music clip with xvid codec who is acting very stange. When i'm holding down the 'file button' in windows media player and then get the menu (open open url...) the scratchy sound is gone!!!For other moviefiles is this not the case.
Could it be my videocard who is too slow?? (nvidia tnt2 32Mb)

[BrainBug]

If you use the WaveOut Device as default audio renderer (check with GraphEdit) try switching to the DirectSound Device (many DVD players can do that, or install ac3filter and use that to switch)