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Marvelous Marv · 03-12-2006, 03:42 PM

This could be confusing, but I will plow ahead.

I located a video online that I wanted to preserve for myself. It downloaded as an mp4.

Wanted to send it to a friend, but my normally faithful AVS Video Converter would only convert the video portion. All of the resulting files, in any format, lacked audio. (I could only play the original in QuickTime and VLC, by the way).

Sometimes I will spend way too long on something that pisses me off. So I used VLC to create an audio mpg, and tried to add that with an editor to the soundless MPG I'd created from the original video. No dice until I converted the audio mpg to a .WAV, after which it was possible to combine that with the mpg.

Perhaps someone knowledgeable can tell me why I encountered the problem, and what would be an easier way to solve it.

Thanks.

AquaFox · 03-12-2006, 05:22 PM

MP4 = motion picture audio layer # 4

list all your files and file types you got from this in a chart, it might help.... soo far i think your saying you got a video thats MP4, and a audio MPEG and audio WAV?

03-12-2006, 03:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Marvelous Marv Cunning Runt Location: Taking a mulligan	Question regarding MP4s This could be confusing, but I will plow ahead. I located a video online that I wanted to preserve for myself. It downloaded as an mp4. Wanted to send it to a friend, but my normally faithful AVS Video Converter would only convert the video portion. All of the resulting files, in any format, lacked audio. (I could only play the original in QuickTime and VLC, by the way). Sometimes I will spend way too long on something that pisses me off. So I used VLC to create an audio mpg, and tried to add that with an editor to the soundless MPG I'd created from the original video. No dice until I converted the audio mpg to a .WAV, after which it was possible to combine that with the mpg. Perhaps someone knowledgeable can tell me why I encountered the problem, and what would be an easier way to solve it. Thanks. __________________ "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher

03-12-2006, 05:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
AquaFox WaterDog	MP4 = motion picture audio layer # 4 list all your files and file types you got from this in a chart, it might help.... soo far i think your saying you got a video thats MP4, and a audio MPEG and audio WAV? __________________ ...AquaFox...