Audio Popping/Crackling with WMV & Divx Files

[nicktripp]

Hello.

I'm experiencing a problem with playback of WMV and Divx files in SageTV where the audio contains cracks and pops. The problem is not with the files, as they play on other computers just fine. It just seems to be on this PC. My relevant hardware is as follows:

AMD Athlon 1GHz
384MB of RAM
Hauppauge PVR-150 (x2)
Hauppauge PVR-250
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200

This box works fine for SageTV and has no problem with MPEG2 playback. The audio sounds good and the picture looks great. I've been using SageTV for a long time now, but never really bothered with anything other than recording and watching TV. Now, I'm downloading some video podcasts in WMV format, and the audio problem is really annoying me.

Little help?

Edit: Yes, the SoundBlaster Drivers are up to date. Also, I'm running SageTV v.5.0.4.92, not that it matters. I just noticed that this problem occurs for WMV files in Windows Media Player as well.

[nicktripp]

Hmmm. I still haven't figured it out.

Any help? Please?

[nicktripp]

The files themselves are okay. They play fine on other computers. Just not on my SageTV machine.

Re-encoding them may work, but re-encoding every WMV, AVI or divx/xvid file that hits my machine isn't really an option. I don't have that kind of time.

[Wheemer]

reformat and reinstall?

[nicktripp]

Yeah, I suppose I could. Though I hate to do that when everything else is working flawlessly.

[Wheemer]

maybe you can use Gspot to find the audio codec your files use, then you could download a new version of that codec... Just throwing out ideas.

[nicktripp]

Thanks. I'll give Gspot a shot tonight.