I have just read the whole of the instruction manual and still can't get anywhere. I have bought a sony handycam HDD and have put the videos taken so far onto the computer using Sony's software. They are kept in the desk top bit under the name sony browser or whatever they have called it.

I have been onto photobucket to upload a vid and there is no sound even though I can watch the vids no problems on the sony browser. My camcorder records in MPEG2 and I have just read on Photbucket all the files they support and MPEG2 is not one of them :(

Can I change the format before uploading to Photobucket or do I need to find another photo/video hosting site that supports MPEG2. I really want to be able to do this on my own without asking Mr P. (I have already put up a roman blind this morning)

I've got a headache :(

You can use Welcome to virtualdub.org! - virtualdub.org to recompress it into another supported format. You may need to install some video codecs to find one compatible with where you want to upload it - Free-Codecs.com : Download K-Lite Codec Pack 3.6.5 FULL, K-Lite Codec Pack 3.6.5 STANDARD, K-Lite Codec Pack 3.6.5 BASIC : K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools is pretty comprehensive.

Chris

And again (on Chris's heels )

MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder

Working with video and audio codecs can be a real pain, for the professional media designer and for the home user who wants to playback old video they’ve downloaded from the Internet. For the professional media designer, if they’ve been given video and audio to create a DVD, the media isn’t always presented in the format required to produce the DVD – the media needs to be decoded before it can be encoded to the correct format.

There are plenty of open-source codecs available. For instance the K-Lite Codec Pack collates a number of old and new codecs within one package which you can use to encode/decode and play your media. However, some of these codecs require you to use multiple media encoders/decoders and who wants to install these packages on one computer?

MediaCoder is a tool that collates the use of these codecs in to one interface. From the single interface, you can import your audio and video, quickly see the codecs used to encode them and then convert them to another format, where required. MediaCoder goes much further than simple conversion though. You can take DVD-quality video and then reduce this to a format that will be playable on a portable media device.

Still waiting for that cyberspace donut :P

Thanks to you both, but WTF? :confused:

Thanks to you both, but WTF? :confused:

Codecs are 'translation' engines. You need to make your vids into something Photobucket can 'understand' then you need these translation engines installed on your system so that the software you will be using can translate your MPEG2 files into another format.

Mediacoder - as I understand it from their blurb - comes with the neccessary codecs - so download it, install it (thereby installing the needed codecs as well) and then point it to your offending MPEG2s and tell it what you want them translating into.

I've joined AVforums last night aswell just to insult myself even more

Nobody wrote anything about this in any of the reviews I read :(

MPEG-2 is the compression standard used for DVD video and as such takes up quite a bit of space. A codec is a compressor/decompressor which allows you to convert this into other compression standards. I suspect it wasn't mentioned in the reviews because the majority of people will just burn their videos to DVD and only the techy ones will be trying to upload them to t'interweb.

So basically, to put it on Youtube the file has to be more compressed (so it takes up less space) and to do that you need to use a different codec. DivX/MPEG-4 is a popular one and should be supplied with the software Val recommended which looks like a good all-in-one solution.

Chris

How strange, I have uploaded it to youtube from a normal my videos folder (where there was no sound) and it works :confused: It has now gone on Face book and it works, although I only meant to put it on mine and it has sent it to everybody!

I have a theory...if I upgrade windows media player to recognise the audio I may be alright?

It sounds as if Media Player doesn't have the right sound codecs in (and, yet, strangely, the Sony does as it obviously can play back the vids with sound - I'd have thought when the Sony software was installed then the sound codec would have been made available to all media players,, this is what usually happens).

As a 'test' to see if Media Player is missing the codecs I suggest you download KMPlayer - a standalone freeware media player that comes baggaged with it's own set of codecs (around 17MB zipped file). (Standalone means it runs from anywhere on the computer and does not need to be installed. Just click on the exe and it works). I use it all the time in preference to nasty horrible Windows Media Player.

Wikipedia description

The KMPlayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You may (probably) will find that you will use this in preference to Media Player.

Downloads can be slow from the main site - and you may be as well Googleing and downloading from other sites - but this player will handle virtually any file you throw at it. (Another quite good one is GOM Player).

KMPlayer - download sites

The KMPlayer - Reviews and free The KMPlayer downloads at Download.com

Free-Codecs.com :: Download KMPlayer 2.9.3.1428 : KMPlayer is an all in one directshow player

Download KMPlayer 2.9.3.1428 Beta - A korean media and DVD Front-End Player - Softpedia

Don't be worried about the program being in 'beta' - it always is as the guy is constantly improving it. Every beta I've downloaded over the last 3 years has always worked just fine.