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no sound, converting QT files to iPod

  • 01-06-2008 1:28am
    #1
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭


    I wonder can someone help me with this, as it's slowly driving me nuts. I've dowloaded a few TV shows offa the interweb thingy.

    They arrive in my downloads folders as quicktime movies. So far, so good. I've been cavalier enough to have bought QT Pro. One of the things that QT Pro does is convert video/movie files for use on your iPod. Sure enough, I click 'export' on QT Pro and it gives me that option.

    And the files do in fact appear in iTunes as mpeg4 files....but with no sound. I tried iSquint as an alternative but it tells me "Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0".

    I don't get it. It plays perfectly, both sound and vision, in quicktime. It converts into an iPod type file (mpeg4), but there's no sound. iSquint won't even look at it. Wazzup with that?


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  • #2
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    I wonder can someone help me with this, as it's slowly driving me nuts. I've dowloaded a few TV shows offa the interweb thingy.

    They arrive in my downloads folders as quicktime movies. So far, so good. I've been cavalier enough to have bought QT Pro. One of the things that QT Pro does is convert video/movie files for use on your iPod. Sure enough, I click 'export' on QT Pro and it gives me that option.

    And the files do in fact appear in iTunes as mpeg4 files....but with no sound. I tried iSquint as an alternative but it tells me "Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0".

    I don't get it. It plays perfectly, both sound and vision, in quicktime. It converts into an iPod type file (mpeg4), but there's no sound. iSquint won't even look at it. Wazzup with that?


    maybe what you've downloaded is mpeg? I've had some strange results using quicktime to convert to ipod. I use something called VisualHub which is very good.


  • #3
    440Hz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    Id recommend trying VisualHub also. I've had the same problem using QT Pro to convert many diff file types, having the same missing audio issue.


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    If the audio stream is muxed audio, then the iPod may not be able to support it.


  • #5
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    A belated thanks to Hugh, 440 and Aiden. Eventually I got it sorted out. The key was - as Hugh and 440 suggested - Visual Hub.

    I bought Flip4Mac to turn the streaming WMV TV into a QT file that I could save (I could have stayed with the trial version, but that leaves the monumentally annoying 'watermark' on the images).

    I then bought QT Pro to do the transfer into an iPod readable file. Doing this got rid of the soundtrack (possibly for the reasons Aiden mentioned).

    So then I bought Visual Hub, which allowed me to get the file into iTunes with the soundtrack intact.

    One final wrinkle. Still wasn't playing on the iPod. I had to go into 'Get Info' and change the file type from 'Movie' to 'TV Show'. Now everything plays fine and dandy. All so Beloved can watch her favorite Thai TV sitcoms on her iPod. She's now a happy and giggling commuter on the LUAS going to work each morning.

    Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you. The InterWibble (and boards.ie) is wonderful for this kind of help.


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