[mythtv-users] no sound on some mythtv .mpg files when played in mplayer- help!

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/27/06, Roger James <roger at beardandsandals.co.uk> wrote:
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>  The system drive on my myth box crashed late week end (chip burnt out on
> driver interface board!). I have just rebuilt my system. Unfortunately my
> database was on the system drive so now I have a whole load of .mpg files
> with myth generated names that I would like to view to see what they
> contain.
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> I have been going through them with mplayer, but I find that whilst I can
> see the video, on a lot of them I get no sound.
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> I have both an analog (pvr350) and a digital capture card in my system
> (nova-T). So I am wondering if this has something to do with it.
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> All the files have .mpg extensions none of them are .nuv.
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> It would appear that some files have audio that mplayer cannot handle.
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> 1. Has anyone got any ideas what is causing this?
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> 2. Can anyone recommend a command line tool for displaying information
> about the files (for Debian/Linux)?
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> 3. Can I fix this by transcoding the files, and if so how?
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> I am afraid I am a code hacker, not a video format expert L
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> Thanks
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On my system when I use mplayer to view a file I get no sound but if I view
it in Myth the sound is there. I think mplayer is just having a hard time
getting the audio stream. You can try the file in xine most of the time it
will play the audio.

Allan
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