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josiahpugh · Apr 26, 2003, 10:10 PM

I've found some divx files that have an audio encoding of mpga. VLC can play them okay but I prefer QT. QT doesn't recognize this audio format. How can I convert the audio to mp3 or something so I can play it in QT? Thanks.

Gul Banana · Apr 26, 2003, 10:24 PM

You could use mencoder, which comes with mplayer. Something along the lines of:
"mencoder -o convertedfile.avi -vo copy -ao mp3lame filetoconvert.avi" should do the trick.

josiahpugh · Apr 27, 2003, 01:41 PM

Is there a GUI for this type of operation? Maybe a QT codec that can read mpga?

P · Apr 27, 2003, 04:32 PM

Have you tried using avi2mov to convert your avis into movs?

josiahpugh · Apr 27, 2003, 04:40 PM

Yea, I just tried DiVX Doctor... that seems to convert the sound to mp3. Excellent.

P · Apr 28, 2003, 04:41 AM

Actually, the sound was MP3 all the time, only it was VBR MP3, and that's not really allowed in AVIs. Quicktime couldn't figure out what it was and wrote mpga - for MPEG Audio, MP3 is MPEG 1 Audio LAyer 3 - as a general designation. VBR MP3 is quite OK in MOVs, so QuickTime can read it now.

sadie · Apr 28, 2003, 10:21 AM

Anybody know what to do with AVIs (DivX) that have windows media audio?

P · Apr 28, 2003, 01:13 PM

Play them with VLC. There is also a VMA codec for QuickTime for Classic here:

http://appleguru.home.attbi.com/wmaaudio.sit.hqx

Also check this page

http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~siv...ntosh/wma.html