I got a CD Burner not too long ago. I got it installed yesterday afternoon and I’ve been burning some CDs today. Everything I’m putting onto the CDs are turning out good except for one song. I’ve tried it twice and through the whole song, it bubbles and gulps, like it’s under water, but if I just play it on my computer it’s good. How can I fix it ?
I went to a concert on Friday night and someone took videos of it, he emailed them to me, but all I’m getting are flashes and snow, he tells me it probably has something to do with codecs I need. What is that and how do I get them ?
Codecs are a set of instructions that tell your computer how to prossess certain compressed media.
In order to view a file you’ll have to have the codec used to compress it.
Some popular movie codecs: Divx, VidX, MPG1 & MPG2.
You may have some luck wiht the audio file by using a program to uncompress it to a.wav file, then recompressing it. It may be the bit rate is not compatible with whatever software you are using to burn it.
Kinthalis came so close to one great way to fix the audio CD burning problem. First you decompress your mp3s (or whatever) to wavs, verify the wavs play right, then you burn the wavs. No need to recompress. (I had this problem with Adaptac, as it was known then, CD Creator. It just fuwapped decompressing some mp3s. I decompress using Winamp’s wav output setting.)
If he sent you still pictures (like jpegs), then no codecs are needed whatsoever. If the image is munged, it was probably got garbled along the way. Sending binaries properly via email is over some people’s heads.
If you friend doesn’t know what was sent or in what format, forget it. Tell him to not bother sending you binaries again. He’s just wasting your time and bandwidth.
Download the K-Lite CODEC pack and install it. I contains pretty much EVERY codec format you will ever run into. If you’re still having problems after that, then it’s not CODEC related (more than likely).
Note that there’s a configure button to set which directory to store the wavs, but leave the rest alone. Select the files you want to convert, hit play, watch the play slider speed along as it’s writing to disk (no sound).
When done, change back to “wavout plugin”. (Which means of course that earlier I horribly mistyped “wav output” when my fingers should have been typing “disk output”.)
Even though it adds another step to the process, it actually saves time since I end up burning fewer coasters.