So I got a Creative Zen Vision a couple of months ago. It works great... except for it's buggy firmware, Creative's lack of support and it's incompatibility with many formats.

But all quirks aside, it's a great player, but the format incompatibility is what's getting me. I download movies all the time from various torrents and, unfortunately, I'm often left with a video that won't play on my player. Namely, it doesn't support AC3 audio.

My question: Where can I find a good (and free!) utility that will allow me to convert just the audio portion of my video files? Yes Beryl, I tried google... to no avail. Everything I get is either not free, doesn't do what I want or is really crappy.

Any ideas?


louie


p.s.- Does anybody know of any good free video converters for that odd occasion in which it doesn't support a video format? Thanks!

Posted by fatLouie So I got a Creative Zen Vision a couple of months ago. It works great... except for it's buggy firmware, Creative's lack of support and it's incompatibility with many formats. But all quirks aside, it's a great player, but the format incompatibility is what's getting me. I download movies all the time from various torrents and, unfortunately, I'm often left with a video that won't play on my player. Namely, it doesn't support AC3 audio. My question: Where can I find a good (and free!) utility that will allow me to convert just the audio portion of my video files? Yes Beryl, I tried google... to no avail. Everything I get is either not free, doesn't do what I want or is really crappy. Any ideas? louie p.s.- Does anybody know of any good free video converters for that odd occasion in which it doesn't support a video format? Thanks!

don't know of any free format converters offhand, but why not use vlc as a player? comes with its own codecs.... haven't yet found anything that it won't play. It's also cross-platform... available for Windows/Linux/BeOS and a ton of others as well.

Available from http://www.videolan.org


EGV

VLC is amazing... but this thing is an portable media player. Getting the videos to work on it is key.

I got a converter, forgot the name of it... it works, but its slow.

Posted by fatLouie VLC is amazing... but this thing is an portable media player. Getting the videos to work on it is key.

Didn't realize that, sorry.

I got a converter, forgot the name of it... it works, but its slow.

If you can remember the name of it, please be sure to post it here, eh?

EGv

www.videohelp.com currently has 648 guides on how to convert video formats.