PopCorn MKV AudioConverter

[gn2]

Hi, first off, your program is great, a big help for me to make my .mkv's conform to the audio I need to play them on my Samsung phone, but, I store my files on another computer, and "My Network" won't show up on the built in file browser.

When I check the option to use Windows file browser, and browse to an .mkv on a computer on my network, it works fine, however, after I close the program it will never open again. Even if I delete the program and the downloaded files and unrar them again, it won't start no matter what.

Using Windows 7, 32 bit.

Any advice on how to get this great program of yours to even open again ?

After I try to open the program, and it won't open, I start Task Manager, and there it is in the "Processes" section, using 50% or more CPU, but it won't start...

[HeartWare]

Are you sure it won't come up? On my machine, it does come up, but it takes a while (since it has to scan the previously converted .MKV file over a network connection, which is much, much slower than if the file was located on the local machine).

Try waiting a minute or more and see if it doesn't come up. It it does, then there's nothing I can do about it - it's your network's speed that is the limiting factor.

In general, it is never a good idea to convert a file over a network connection - especially not if it is on the PopCorn Hour itself, as its SAMBA (Windows Network) implementation is quite slow.

To access your network resource using the built-in file browser, you can map a drive to the resource: Read Post #149 in the old support thread.

[gn2]

I have tried to let it work, and it won't start after 10 minutes of sitting and waiting.

The thing I don't understand is, after it won't start once, the program will NEVER start again. Even if I delete the original .exe, download a new one and try to start it, it just sits there, never popping up a window or anything to indicate its running, but there IS a process visible in the Task Manager.

I would like to use it again, but after experiencing this issue a single time, the program will never start again, even after a restart of my computer, etc.

[HeartWare]

You can clear out the settings for the program (reset it to "uninstalled" state) by deleting the registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HeartWare\AudioConverter (edited from faulty name after reading the next message)

(assuming that your .EXE file is called "AudioConverter.exe")

but BEFORE you do that, please save this branch to a file in RegEdit4 (Win9x/NT4) format, using the "File->Export" command of RegEdit, and send it to me in a

If you are not comfortable editing your registry, the only other option is to change the name of the .EXE file to something other than AudioConverter.exe (which will make the program use a different place to store its settings), and then refrain from using the Windows file selector, and instead map a drive to the network resource, as described in the above message.

[gn2]

Ok, trying to do as you requested, AudioConverter was not where you indicated it would be in the registry, I did, however, find it at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HeartWare. I'm running Win7 32bit if that makes any difference...

I started it up 25 minutes ago now, it is using 50% CPU according to Task Manager, yet no window has opened for it yet.

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I get an error message saying I don't have access when I hit the "PM" link in your post. I saved the reg branch like you asked, but can't send it to you the way you asked.
I'll gladly email it to you, or post it somewhere if you like...

PS: After deleting the registry entry, it started normally, as if never being installed, of course....

[HeartWare]

(07-23-2012 03:08 PM)gn2 Wrote:  Ok, trying to do as you requested, AudioConverter was not where you indicated it would be in the registry, I did, however, find it at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HeartWare.

Yes, that's the right location. My mistake...

(07-23-2012 03:08 PM)gn2 Wrote:  I get an error message saying I don't have access when I hit the "PM" link in your post. I saved the reg branch like you asked, but can't send it to you the way you asked.
I'll gladly email it to you, or post it somewhere if you like...

You can send it to audioconverter <at-sign> heartware.dk.

(07-23-2012 03:08 PM)gn2 Wrote:  PS: After deleting the registry entry, it started normally, as if never being installed, of course....

As it should... I'll see if I can reproduce the problem at home with the registry file you (hopefully) send me, then fix the problem.

[gn2]

Email with attached .reg file sent, if you don't get it, let me know and I'll zip the file or something so it goes through...

[HeartWare]

Thanx. Got the file. Will look at it sometime this week...

[meccs]

If I tick 'adjust volume' and set center to 150% it doesn't increase the center volume, it just decreases the other channels by 50%. Is there a way to really INCREASE the center volume?

[Netmask]

An analogy - some people especially teenagers wind up the bass and treble controls all the way - this is exactly the same as decreasing the centre frequencies. On a few very old technology amps there was a presence control that boosted the midrange however it also went into negative territory and reduced the midrange ie "absence", turn the volume up and you have bass and treble boost.

The same principle applies with increasing the centre channel ie all other channels are reduced in relation to the centre channel.
ie if the centre channel is raised by 3db then all other channels will sound 3db softer.

If you lift the volume of your monitor amp you should get the result you need for your listening situation. Its really a matter of maintaining the power level of the original audio track without causing distortion. If you need more gain then that is the role of the your power amp.

[HeartWare]

(07-26-2012 01:41 AM)meccs Wrote:  If I tick 'adjust volume' and set center to 150% it doesn't increase the center volume, it just decreases the other channels by 50%. Is there a way to really INCREASE the center volume?

Not if the audio of that channel already peaks at 100% - that would cause digital distortion (which would be bad).

If the max volume of the center channel is at 87% of maximum and you increase it (relative) by 150%, then it would be tantamount to setting the peak level at 130%, which would cause distortion. In order to prevent this, the center channel is set at peak level 100% and the remaining channels are then decreased in volume by the remaining 30% so as to keep up the relative peak levels between the channels in accordance with your wishes.

[gmogoody]

I am sorry if this was already asked but I could not find a search forum functionality. Does AudioConverter support network shares? Will It? I g0 to select a file on a network share and the folder is empty when it really is not.

Thanks

[HeartWare]

AudioConverter supports network shares mapped in as a network drive (read the last 5-10 messages in the thread), or as UNC paths when you use the Windows file browser.

If you manage to browse to the directory, and no files are listed, it is because the files in the directory isn't .MKV (Matroska) files. PopCorn MKV Audio Converter (which is its full name) only supports processing of .MKV files. No other file types are supported (and therefore not shown in the file selector).

[gmogoody]

(07-27-2012 01:24 PM)HeartWare Wrote:  AudioConverter supports network shares mapped in as a network drive (read the last 5-10 messages in the thread), or as UNC paths when you use the Windows file browser.

If you manage to browse to the directory, and no files are listed, it is because the files in the directory isn't .MKV (Matroska) files. PopCorn MKV Audio Converter (which is its full name) only supports processing of .MKV files. No other file types are supported (and therefore not shown in the file selector).

Oh ok that may explain it. In Windows 7 I have them as Network Locations(UNC Path) instead of Network Drives. So my mapping has an address of \\Server\Folder. I will map \\Server\Folder to a drive letter as well to see if I can get it to work that way. All of the files are *.mkv. I actually had them on my local machine and moved them. AudioConverter saw them and then did not after the move

[miguelos_arg]

Thank you very much to Keld R. Hansen to give us it for free !!!

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For those having the error " required file x. ac3 does not exist " when using installed updated version of MKVtoolnix (on 5. 7. 0 now) , just do the following :

On "MKV Tools" tab, check "Individual locations" then on the following 3 fields browse the corresponding EXE files from the package downloaded on the ZIP file.

Example path on my installation :
D~SOFT~PopCorn MKV AudioConvert~AC1873~Tools~MKVtoolnix~mkvinfo. exe
D:~SOFT~PopCorn MKV AudioConvert~AC1873~Tools~MKVtoolnix~mkvextract. exe
D:~SOFT~PopCorn MKV AudioConvert~AC1873~Tools~MKVtoolnix~mkvmerge. exe

((Replace "~" with back slash))

Thank you very much to Keld R. Hansen to give us it for free !!!

I'm using it to convert MP4 and MKV files with AAC audio to MKV AC3 files. It works very fast.

I'm on Win 7 64 AMD 4 cores 3. 6MHz .

Thank you again!