Hi there
I use goldwave all the time, I will give that a go right now.

on another quick note: if that doesnt work, one last thing i would try is to download a new mp3 codec you can find here: http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=86 . now with this, there may be 2 mp3 codecs that will show up in virtualdub. a good way to tell the difference is that the new codec will go up to 320kbps whereas the default system codec can only go up to like 56kbps.

Do i still set the thing to 22.050? or just use the wav without changing that

no. continue following the tutorial and use 56kbps, 22khz, stereo.


i think i should also make a note for skeptics on why i chose to use the VP60/61 codec. reason is not only does this codec have low cpu usage, but it is installed and used by The Sims 2 so everyone here has it. makes it a great choice.

it didnt work. Ill install the codec, but i dont know what that will do, dont know anything about codecs.

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where do I extract it to? it doesnt seem to do anything but extract.

run the file inside the zip file it will install the codec.

No matter what I do, it just doesnt work. I tried again, and I just tried agian and again. I guess I should give up. It just shits me that it workds for some and not for me blah! I hate computers.

Anyway, thank you to both of you for trying to help me. I appreciate it.

Okay, so this is what it does.

I resample the wav to like 2000! really really bad quality, then use virtual dub following the tutorial. Then I put it in the game..

The audio plays for longer the less the resample number, only still, at some point it started to loop again from beginning while the video continues normal.

Does anyone have any idea why? I really want to get the audio to work.

Good call
Goldwave is another one of my "install this first after reformatting" proggies
Along with VirtualDub, Premier, Photoshop, 3D Studio MAX 7, Sims2, FireFox, and WinAmp.

At the very least, if there is nothing 'wrong' with your audio track, goldwave will let you convert it to 22.050Hz before you send it back to VirtualDub to encode the Avi, which should, in theory and hopefully, solve the problem.

- Coffee

It didnt solve the problem though, But Still once again, ide like to thank you all for your help anyway. I tried. Maybe I could one day try one of the movies from you, or someone on the forum to see if they work Just to see. Out of curiosity, how long do you make them in the game? a minute? just curious.

actually i have a channel full of full length movies on mine. these are the movies ive got in there so far:

Twister
I,Robot
Loony Toons: Back in Action

and each run fine for me albeit i never make it through the whole movie due to Sim ADD

Oh I am so jealous. Thats pretty cool. Still, I wonder why the audio just wont work for me.

Anyway, have fun

I have a question. How do you save the file on your computer so you can open it on VirtualDub.

depends on what file it is and where it is. got a link?

Well theres no link. But I have a movie I bought from the store. It is Looney Tunes back in action. Sorry if I'm confusing you. I'm a mess.

well, thats a little more difficult. for converting from a dvd you will need to go to a site like videohelp.com and find a tutorial for converting dvd's to avi. there are a number of tutorials there. after its converted to avi, then you can follow the tutorial shown here.

Thanx, I will try. Btw where di yu get your movies?

Erm... this may not be right bt for vidoes doesnt it have to be 120x120 frames or something like that? Why do I just keep on getting a flashing blue screen?! I had 2 Sim Videos in there, but I dont think the frames were right. OK I'll shut up now I feel intimidated you all know so much and I don't ..

I don't know. I did have a blue flashing screen but I just made sure to change the video clip. It worked for me. If it desn't change read the posts @http://www.modthesims2.com/showthre...hlight=channels.

Hope this helped.

Is there a downloadable version of this tutorial.

Yep, the AVI needs to be 128x128 framesize, and 15 frames per second (FPS), Vchat20 covered that in his tutorial though.

At this point, I'm pretty baffled. Only thing I can think to do is have you send me the source video, and I can have a go at it.

Sorry I couldn't help more. I would've really have liked to help you solve the issue completely.

Most of mine are around 10 minutes, and I've sat through watching a good majority of them with sims that have low Fun bars. The Thundercats episodes I have on there are a good deal longer than the 10 minute Robot Chicken episodes, as some of them have 3-5 episodes rolled into one single AVI file.

At the moment, I'm working on a custom object (a TiVo box) that everyone will be able to download and just drop their own AVI's into

There is now.

You'll need Adobe Reader (free) to view the tutorial, as it is in PDF format.

Enjoy.

Some of my movies are 30 minutes to 60 minutes long

I'm slightly new to Virtual Dub, for starters. I thought this might help some new people like myself and save them from searching all over the net for answers.
I had an .mpg of my favorite music video (Oingo Boingo--Private Life, if you'd like to know). I read the tutorial and saw that I needed an .avi.
I converted my .mpg to .avi using Auto Gordian Knot and plugged it into Virtual Dub. I got an error message right after I clicked "save as AVI" that said something to the effect of, "decompressor not found for codec type 0050"(or something close to that).
I was bummed.
I decided to try my original .mpg file instead, since I was going to save it as an .avi in the tutorial's last step anyway. I figured, what the heck? Worst that can happen is another error message.
Well, the .mpg(mpeg-1) works just fine with the same settings as the tutorial says.
I did have to fix the interlace a bit. I set the audio to delay 150ms.
Just goes to show ya, that you might as well try stuff out.
I plan on posting a bunch of my Oingo Boingo videos.