Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:24:15PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: Just out of curiosity, I brought up in Audacity the mp3 file from one of the videos and saw that the left channel was blank, while all the music was in the right channel (which I guess could be considered the secondary channel in a

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-24 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/24/10, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: That was a hunch I had, and I corrected it in the sample video I sent you. Here's what I did. 1) Get the audio track from the video: ffmpeg -i yourvideo.flv -vn sound.wav 2) Get the video track from the video: ffmpeg -i yourvideo.flv

Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
I'm having some problems with videos I have made from an external USB capture device. One Linux machine I am testing on fails to play the music from the videos. Instead, I get a bunch of high pitched static. The captures were done on a Windows machine with WinDVR (it's highly doubtful that this

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:17:01AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I'm having some problems with videos I have made from an external USB capture device. One Linux machine I am testing on fails to play the music from the videos. Instead, I get a bunch of high pitched static. The captures were

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/23/10, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: As a proof of concept, I made a short clip from the youtube video. See if this plays ok. It's xvid and mp3 formats. VLC should handle it. -Rob I downloaded the file, and ffmpeg tells me it's h264 video and libfaad audio. Perhaps youtube

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 04:17 AM, Scarletdown wrote: I'm having some problems with videos I have made from an external USB capture device. One Linux machine I am testing on fails to play the music from the videos. Instead, I get a bunch of high pitched static. The captures were done on a Windows

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/23/10, Scarletdown scarletd...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Are the two Debian boxes the same? I.e., both up-to-date {Stable|Testing|Sid} with the same libraries installed? Hardwarewise, they are different in many ways. For their OS builds,

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 02:09 PM, Scarletdown wrote: On 10/23/10, Scarletdownscarletd...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Are the two Debian boxes the same? I.e., both up-to-date {Stable|Testing|Sid} with the same libraries installed? Hardwarewise, they are

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/23/10, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Do you have http://www.debian-multimedia.org in your sources.list? It's there. Yes Do you have libfaad2 installed on the static-playing machine? libfaad2 is on both systems. (2.7-4) COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l | cut -c5-39 | grep ^lib

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I presume that having the right libraries would get it to play on the Deb box. However, that would still leave the underlying problem in place. These videos should be playable on any system that can play YouTube videos. It seems

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:49:08AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: As for YouTube converting the video after uploading, I am sure that does happen. However, I have this problem with my original captures before they get sent to the Tube as well. Here are a three sample non-YouTubeized files:

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 06:22 PM, Scarletdown wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Do you have http://www.debian-multimedia.org in your sources.list? It's there. Yes Do you have libfaad2 installed on the static-playing machine? libfaad2 is on both systems. (2.7-4)

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
Firstly, I want to take a moment to thank both of you people who offered advice for your attempts to help. Embarrassingly, it appears that we were all following the wrong trail in our troubleshooting after all. Just out of curiosity, I brought up in Audacity the mp3 file from one of the videos

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 09:24 PM, Scarletdown wrote: Firstly, I want to take a moment to thank both of you people who offered advice for your attempts to help. Embarrassingly, it appears that we were all following the wrong trail in our troubleshooting after all. We all make mistakes like that. --