Restore sound on EyeTV MPEG4 AVIs in QuickTime
Dec 04, '06 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: pianojoe
The format of ElGato's EyeTV application's MPEG4 files must be somewhat odd. VLC can't play them, and ffmpeg doesn't understand them. QuickTime Player shows the video, but you get no sound, even though an MPEG audio track is displayed in the movie info window.
This usually happens when QuickTime doesn't have a codec to decode the audio. But I just found out you can export the movie from QuickTime Player to, let's say, MP4, and, boom: audio is back. I don't see why this works, but it does. Seems like a bug in QuickTime Player to me.
[robg adds: I can't test this one. If you can do so, one way or the other, please comment.]
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