A long time ago (6ish months) I made a gaming movie and left it uncompressed on my hard drive. The total file size was just above 20gb. Now I need that harddrive space, so I'm hoping to encode said movie down to a reasonable size for storage sake.
Heres where the problems start. As far as encoding the video, thats fine. When I try to encode the audio stream however the colloquial hits the fan. So far the only way I've been able to do it is by encoding it with the audio set to direct stream processing, shown here
While this method works, with my current video encode settings I get and audio stream that is roughly 25% bigger than my video stream, which is funny because the source files (songs) were about 4-5mb each, and now they've ended up at well over 100
However, when I try to compress the audio aswell (done by selecting fullprocessing mode), and my audio encoder, and hit "Save as AVI" - I get this error:
No audio decompressor could be found to decompress the source audio format.
(source format tag: fffe)
So I googled that error and basically discovered that I didn't have the right codec to decompress my audio stream so that it could be recompressed. However, I'm having alot of trouble finding the codec that has the tag "fffe" for it.
Some other info that might be relevent:
VD File Info
GSpot info
Now I could try to interpret the gspot data, but I don't think I'd get it right, but it seems like it used something to do with my soundcard.
If anyone can give me some guidance I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for any help in advance.