Need help with playback of AVI movies with AC3 sound.

[Willem]

I've searched the entire forum for a posts with information about the problem I have and though I found some, none of the answers have solved it. The problem is that when I try to playback a DiVX movie with AC3 sound I only get stereo output. I've tried several players, Media player, powerDVD, WinDVD and PowerDiVX in combination with the ac3 codec and other codecs I have found on the internet.

I can play any AC3 or VOB file without any problems but not AVI files with AC3. I know the movies I've tested this on have AC3 sound as I've ripped (using VirtualDub) the sound from the file and played it with winDVD and I got perfect multichannel sound.

I use a soundblaster audigy and the AVI file I use to test the playback is:

Ocean's Eleven DIVX

Sampling rate: 48000Hz
Channels: 5
Sample precission: 0-bit
Compression: Unknown(tag 2000)

[setarip]

Although I know that the software DVD players (WinDVD and PowerDVD) will only generate stereo output for such DivX files, I believe that if you try Windows Media Player v.6.4, you'll get 5 channel output...

[Willem]

I solved the AC3 problem

Finally I can listen to my DIVX movies enjoying AC3 sound.

Instead of mediaplayer I now use BSplayer:
Bsplayer

And I found a set of codecs on another forum that do work:
Codec: Right click: "Save as"

This worked for me so maybe this will work for other with the same problem aswell.