Win7 64bit MP3 Frustration

[John Rofrano]

I’m not sure why you are messing with any MP3 codecs at all. Vegas has MP3 support built-in. Now that you’ve installed your own codecs, there’s no telling what damage they may have done. I would uninstall them and re-install Vegas.

~jr

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[Randall Clarke]

Hi

appreciate your input but sorry I don’t really agree with it. There has never been any good support for this with Vegas – only work arounds and it makes no sense because you can encode MP3 at higher bit rates as an mp3 file, but then when you want to put it into the avi container it doesn’t work ?????

If you can recommend a codec that will work with divx players that is not as large as pcm then I’m all ears. Reinstalling will do nothing, and installing FFDSHOW has never effected my systems over the years..
This problem is definetly exclusive to Vegas. I did get high bit mp3 working with the fraunhofer codec and xp64 bit but doing extensive reading it doesn’t look promising in win7

spent a lot of money on a new quad core, win 7 and vegas 10..hoping it would actually work – mp3 is not some esoteric codec…it should work…looks like a mux in VDub is the extra step work around.,..

cheers

[John Rofrano]

[Randall Clarke] “There has never been any good support for this with Vegas – only work arounds and it makes no sense because you can encode MP3 at higher bit rates as an mp3 file, but then when you want to put it into the avi container it doesn’t work ?????”

Ahh… I missed the part where you are trying to place MP3 in an AVI container. (sorry)

~jr

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[Rob Franks]

I’m inclined to agree with John. Not too sure why you’re messing around with MP3. I would go with AC3 (Dolby Digital)… either stereo or 5.1 surround should work. It is legal for xvid

[Rob Franks]

One other note:
Be careful with Vegas and 3rd party codecs. Vegas always wants to render a “compliant” file. If the 3rd party codec being used does not measure up to EXACT standards, then the chances are it will fail.

[Randall Clarke]

thanks for all the info…Are you saying that AC3 will work with divx players ?
I will do some reading online as well…

cheers

[Randall Clarke]

I just used virtual dub and got the file down from 2gig to 1.4 based on video direct stream copy and audio – process – MP3 @ 48k, 160, stereo…So not to be kurt but messin’ with the mp3 reduces the file size dramatically and assures compatibility with divx/dvd players…

thanks

[John Rofrano]

That’s great. So now you have a workflow that works for you. Thanks for reporting back. VirtualDub was a good solution.

~jr

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