[halljames]

Hi there.

I have just upgraded to the latest version (from 13 to 14) and the sound on my avi home movies is no longer working. Sound everywhere else is working fine, movies, MP3, mkv are all fine, but my digital videos from my cannon camera are silent.

I have played around with all the audio settings, but when a file is playing, if I bring up the files audio settings, the audio codec but is disabled, and it says it's unkown 1 channel mono, and it's all silent.

These files worked in previous versions, they work in media player, just not kodi.

Any ideas?

[jjd-uk]

Follow instructions at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1707519 to post the MediaInfo of one of the files, could you also generate a debug log_file (wiki) with you trying to play the file you got the MediaInfo for.

If you are able it might also be helpful if you can do the same for v13 where it works so the logs can be compared.

Note - there has been some issues with add-on used in easy method for getting the log file described on the wiki pages, so you might have to use the advanced or file manager method.

[halljames]

http://pastebin.com/TSr67cud

Here is the audio info produced :

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Unsigned
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1mn 29s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 88.2 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 11.024 KHz
Bit depth : 8 bits
Stream size : 958 KiB (1%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1000 ms (30.00 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 1000 ms

[fritsch]

A Debug Log is needed.

[halljames]

Okay thanks. Here is a log file I have just generated when I try and play one of the AVI files.

http://pastebin.com/je7fXzCk

Thanks

[jjd-uk]

You are using a Directsound device, have you tried using the WASAPI option?

[halljames]

Well what do you know, that worked a treat.

I wasn't sure what WASAPI was, I had just assumed that Direct Sound was the windows standard I should have been using.

Thanks very much.

[jjd-uk]

They are both standard Windows API's, the basic differences are:

WASAPI - Windows routes audio direct to the audio device, when using WASAPI Kodi must have exclusive access to audio device, hence while Kodi is open you won't have sound from other apps or Windows itself, so in this mode Kodi controls audio.

Directsound - Windows routes audio into it's internal mixer, when using Directsound Kodi does not have exclusive access to the audio device, hence multiple apps can be open and sound can come from any of them, so in this mode Windows controls audio.

[Lunatixz]

Any resolution? I'm experiencing the same issue

Kodi labels the media as "Unknown mono" and will not play either using WASAPI or DS.

Mediainfo:

Code:

General
Complete name                            : Z:\TV\Bewitched\Season 04\Bewitched - S04E33 - Splitsville DVD.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 175 MiB
Duration                                 : 25 min
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 964 kb/s
Writing application                      : Nandub v1.0rc2
Writing library                          : Nandub build 1852/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP                    : 2
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 25 min
Bit rate                                 : 874 kb/s
Width                                    : 496 pixels
Height                                   : 368 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 23.976 (23976/1000) FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.200
Stream size                              : 159 MiB (91%)
Writing library                          : XviD 1.1.0 RC (UTC 2005-11-22)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 25 min
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 76.6 kb/s
Minimum bit rate                         : 48.0 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 13.9 MiB (8%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24  ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 230  ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.93
Encoding settings                        : -m m -V 1 -q 2 -lowpass 19.5 --vbr-new -b 48

Log snippet:

http://pastebin.com/VNe0wMzZ
Link expires in 2weeks.

Thanks