Magic Motion Sound problems!

spookytrail · Magic Motion Sound problems!

I've been playing with my magic motion for a few weeks now and I have yet to be able to record something with a sound file that works. I've done a bunch of reading in the forums here and have not found anything referencing the problem I'm having. The recording works fine. It comes up and asks if I want to save the sound file and I click yes. But the file is corrupted or somthing and I can't load it into anything to play it back including VSA.

Any Ideas?

Thomas Clark
Spooky Trail

Phoenix

Very strange, I'm assuming that everything works fine in live mode.

After you have recorded a sound file and exported it to VSA can you play the sound file on your computer by double clicking it?

Do you get any error messages when you open VSA (besides the version warning).

have you any sound software installed on that computer?

a couple of ways forward spring to mind, 1) send me the sound and VSA files and 2) I need to do some research on Sound Codecs.

Phoenix

this program here looks pretty good for diagnosis of Sound Codec Problems

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

When you install this on your computer you can open your sound file and find out which codec was used for recording if it is installed on your computer and if there is a problem with it.

spookytrail · Magic Motion Sound problems!

I downloaded the software you mentioned and it comes up with no codec required after I loaded my file I recorded. For the bottom box it says unable to render the audio. And yes everything works in live mode. The skeleton moves just like I origonally recorded. But no audio. I can email you the file I recorded if you like. In the meanwhile I'll try to record a file without using magic motion and see how it works. I'll post the results in a few minutes.

Thomas

spookytrail · Magic Motion Sound problems!

Okay I recorded an audio file with the little sound recorder program windows XP comes with and it works just fine. I'll play some more with the magic motion program and see what else I can find out about it saving audio files. I have a clean install of windows XP on this laptop. Its a Toshiba A65-126 2.8Ghz machine.

Thomas

spookytrail · Magic Motion Sound problems!

Well, when I load up the file created by magic motion, it does its normal complaining about being an older version and also complains about

CDirectFilters pSrc-pf: no combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection.

It comes up with no audio file loaded and when played it prompts:
CDirectXUtils Error!
Renderfile: ClassFactory cannot supply requested class

Then it crashes.

Thomas

Phoenix

send me the sound file and VSA file

spookytrail · Magic Motion Sound problems!

Okay! The file you recommended worked. After downloading
http://www.xpcodecpack.com/download and installing it the sound files started playing with no problems. Thats really strange!

Thanks. I have a few other problems to work out. I'll try to sort them out and describe whats going on. Thanks. Atleast the audio portion is solved!

Thomas Clark

Phoenix

The file contained a compilation of popular sound Codecs.

A Codec is a file that tells your computer how to enCOde and DECode sound in a sound file, they are like maps.

Magic Motion uses the sound software already installed on your computer to record and playback sound, it does little more than press the record and play buttons when you record a session.

Your computer was evidentially encoding the sound file into a format that it could not decode, my computer couldn't decode it either.

By installing the Codecs you gave your computer the correct map to decode the sound and now it can play it, also (hopefully) it gave your computer a better set of maps to encode the sound, so next time you make a recording its in a format that most other computers can understand.