MKV issues

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:33 am

So I have several video files that are .MKV format...

I've downloaded and installed the needed codec for them...

On all of them I get this wierd audio error.

Sound meant to come from the left or the right comes through fine. music comes through fine. But things like someone speaking in the center of the screen... where the sound is suposed to come from straight ahead. The volume is just not there. I have to turn my volume all the way up to barrly hear someone speaking then get blasted by the music or explosions in the fight scene...

Help

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:44 am

Did they all come from the same source ?
ex ~ torrents .

they may have been encoded badely if thats the case.
you might wanna see if its that by converting one of them to AVI first
use these converter
http://www.cs.ulm.edu/~jself/jmenc/v2/
intructions : open converter click encode for PSP. Now hit the button where it says swicth modes. It should now say normal video mode.
Now select your vid for converting and select an output name.
now hit convert and let it do its work. You shoud now have a AVI file.

Dont know if that helps but worth a try.

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:52 am

That's for the psp... right?

I don't have a psp so...

will it make videos playable on my computer?

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:57 am

what is the sound encoded as?
or what media player are you using to view the vids?

if media player classic goto>options>filters>audio decoders
and tick the normalize option

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:14 am

Well...

Vlc... wouldn't play the video
winamp... did nothing
Wmp... audio issue
mpclassic... audio issue
divx... wouldn't play it
zoomplayer... audio issue

trying the encode it to avi and see what happens thing right now.

The MKVs are from different subing groups.

I'll see what the mpclassic does in a min

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:19 am

Purge wrote:what is the sound encoded as?
or what media player are you using to view the vids?

if media player classic goto>options>filters>audio decoders
and tick the normalize option

does nothing

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:38 am

I'd set FFDShow's audio decoder to 2.0 stereo, cause I can see this issue happening if it's a 5.1 stream being decoded.

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:41 am

well...

converting it to avi did 2 things

1. the voices and such are at the right volume now

2. all sound is now out of sync with the video

I don't know how to iterpret this.

And I don't want to be converting all my mkvs to avi anyway.

maybe I have a corrupt codec or something...

anyone who has mkvs that work tell me where I can find the codec you are using please.

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:42 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:I'd set FFDShow's audio decoder to 2.0 stereo, cause I can see this issue happening if it's a 5.1 stream being decoded.

who does one do that?

FITorion · Post by **FITorion** » Sat May 20, 2006 1:53 am

FITorion wrote:
DJ_Izumi wrote:I'd set FFDShow's audio decoder to 2.0 stereo, cause I can see this issue happening if it's a 5.1 stream being decoded.
who does one do that?

I'm looking all through FFDShow and FFDshow audio and not seeing anywhere wear I can do that.