[mythtv-users] mythtv mpg no audio using windows players

[Paul Barker]

Paul Wilson wrote:

>I'm trying to play some of my recorded shows on my Windows box and I'm 
>getting no sound for  some using both Windows Media player and VLC 
>player, is there some codec these might be using or some switch I need 
>to enable to allow these programs to play these files?
>Or is there a command I can use to display audio codec etc so I can 
>track down the cause.
>
>P
>  
>
Hi

You could try gspot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ to identify the 
codecs needed. My guess is that it's ac3. I know windows media player 
has a hard time playing it without codecs, not sure about VLC though.

Cheers
Paul