no sound with many video files

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Can anyone help with this. A number of video files play without any 
> sound, WMV, MOV and others cause this problem. Some of the above will 
> play with sound, others have, 'unsupported' audio codecs. It's annoying 
> as they -do- play under windows, but who wants to use that??
> 
> Baza

I have exactly the same problem here, I have many mov and VMW videos
that have either no, or crap sound, even when using Totem Xine +
w32codecs or mplayer.
We have laready dicusssed this not that long ago, if you remember.

Problem is that, why are there so many different audio and video
codec/norms/format in existence, to start with ?

Why can't we just have OOG for audio (both music files and streaming
on-line radios), and one MPEG format for video ?

This way we make one super reliable and performant codec, and multimedia
is heaven for everyone everytime on every file.


Somehow I feel this will never happen, so I just live with my problems
and hope that maybe, in 20 years, my files will play properly.
And I am not accusing Linux in any way, because even Windows itself
wanted to download some coded to play its very own VMW files !
What a world....... ;-/


Sorry Baza, for not bringing you any particularly positive news about
this... :o(


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Vince