First DVD to DivX encode - No Audio??

[Hey Yoda]

I recently converted Evil Dead to divx with the help of this guide:

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/dvd2divx4.html

Well I did everything they said and I was happy to get very nice high quality out, but unfortunately no audio. What happened? I've tried various codecs including mp3 and wma. When I use the audio player in Flask, I can hear the audio just fine. But when I go to encode it says bitrate: N/A and audio format: N/A.

Anything you guys can think of that might be the problem?

[setarip]

Do you, by any chance, have Flask set to "Don't decode audio" under the "Audio" tab?

[Hey Yoda]

Nope, I have it set to "decode audio."

Actually I ran across something interesting when reading these forums. Apparently there is a bug in Flask .60.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2518&highlight=no+audio

"1) When using the Radium codec, accessing the Configure Output screen twice cancels it. Result: No audio in your DivX. This is obviously a big problem when doing 2-pass encoding.

Note: This also happens if you try to do 2 one-pass encodings without a reboot.

Possible cure: Reboot your machine after doing the first-pass on a 2-pass encode. When doing a 1-pass make sure you don't access the "Configure Output" screen twice (it doesn't matter if you don't access the audio codec twice -- it's the screen BEFORE that causes the problem!). "


I tried his solution of rebooting and yet it still says:

audio bitrate: N/A
audio format: N/A

Does mean there will be no sound in the output? I don't want to wait the 5 hours to find out.

[setarip]

"I don't want to wait the 5 hours to find out."

You can simply press "Abort" after 5 or 10 minutes and check your output file to see if it contains audio...

[Hey Yoda]

Originally posted by setarip

You can simply press "Abort" after 5 or 10 minutes and check your output file to see if it contains audio...

How then can I check to see if it has audio? All my file players will only play complete divx's. Can you recommend a file player which can play incomplete divx?

[khp]

Actually I ran across something interesting when reading these forums. Apparently there is a bug in Flask .60.

Yes there are several postings on this forum and others. Although I suspect this problem is also present in other versions of flask.

I think it's caused by conflicts between audio codecs, for instance you might have several different mp3 codecs installed, this apparently confuses flask.

Sorry I can't offer any sertain solutions.
I think your best chance would be to uninstall all the codecs you don't need and reinstall the ones you need.

[khp]

audio bitrate: N/A
audio format: N/A

Does mean there will be no sound in the output? I don't want to wait the 5 hours to find out.

*edit*
was: Most likely yes, but
Should be:
You mean in the status window durring encoding right ?
That doen't mean anything, sorry about my misunderstanding
*edit*

to test it u can transcode a very small segment by using the "|_" and "_|" buttons to select a range, click add job to and a job containing the selected range, and then select the big job and delete that.

[Hey Yoda]

Originally posted by khp


*edit*
was: Most likely yes, but
Should be:
You mean in the status window durring encoding right ?

Yep, that's what I'm talking about. So I guess that actually doesn't mean anything then? Anywho, I'm using flask .594 and everything is ok except the volume level is kind of quiet, but supposedly I can fix that up with vdub.

[khp]

So I guess that actually doesn't mean anything then?

Yes AFAIK flask 0.6 never reports audio setting correctly durring the encoding.

[setarip]

"How then can I check to see if it has audio? All my file players will only play complete divx's."

You WILL (at least with Flask v.0.594 and its variants) have a complete DivX .AVI file...