WMP will not use audio codec for playback in ELAN
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WMP will not use audio codec for playback in ELAN
I installed ELAN on a laptop for my transcription assistant but I cannot get the sound to work. My media files are Mpeg2 with WAV sound and they play fine in several other media players, but not in Windows Media Player. The file properties when they are playing show that they have located a video codec but not an audio one (oddly, at first ONLY to audio played, and ELAN would not even open the file, but once I installed some video codecs, only the video played in WMP and in ELAN). My computer has audio codecs that work with the audio of the files with other media players(from the CyberLink PowerDVD program, for example) - I tested on two other computers and the files play with sound on WMP with those same codecs. Why can't I get WMP/ELAN to recognize the audio codec and play the sound on this particular machine?
If anyone has an idea, let me know if you need more info from me.
Thanks,
Simeon
Re: WMP will not use audio codec for playback in ELAN
When there are multiple codecs installed that can handle a particular file, there is currently no way of telling the system which one to use. DirectShow just decides what the so called filter graph will look like. In the ELAN log file there is information on which codecs are actually used to play a file (in <user_home>\.elan_data\elan0.log, as it is after playing a file and then closing ELAN. Section "Filters in the filter chain:"). The log might give some clues, e.g. on which codec to uninstall.
If all else fails, you could extract the audio data to a separate .wav file (or maybe you already have done so); by making the .wav file the first in the list of media files, you should hear the sound.
-Han
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