Audio drop-outs in VMS HD Platinum 10 POSSIBLE FIX

HAL9K wrote on 5/4/2011, 9:31 AM

In one of my earlier threads I was experiencing audio drop-outs in VMS HD Platinum 10 - which looked like this on the timeline and preview:

Screenshot: http://www.uzda4ce.com/vms/vmsproblem.jpg

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FIX, AND YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY - MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF ANY FILE YOU DELETE AND REMEMBER WHERE IT GOES! YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

The video I was trying to import was from a Samsung camera, H.264 (MPEG4.AVC) with AAC Audio

I noticed that VMSHDP10 was using the "compoundplug.dll" for decoding the file.

I went to (in Win7) C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10.0\FileIO Plug-Ins

I opened the "Compoundplug" folder and moved "compoundplug.dll" to the desktop to keep Vegas from using that plugin to decode the file.

Restarted Vegas

Vegas then uses mcmp4plug2.dll to decode the file since it cannot find compoundplug.dll

Final result - audio imports just fine, and renders just fine (with the limited testing I've done.)

Apparently compoundplug.dll is the problem here, just remember to back it up if you remove it.

Hope this can help some people!

Comments

Ras4 wrote on 5/18/2011, 12:03 PM

Thanks for a very usefull tip! Solved my problem with audio droups out in mp4 videofiles from Samsung HX-220-

drguitar0001 wrote on 5/25/2011, 8:07 AM

Wow, thanks Hal. I have been telling Sony about this problem for nearly a year without any fix or update that would correct this problem and you have just made this program usable (not right, but usable). How did you figure out that the "compoundplug.dll" was responsible for the audio stuttering?

Anyway thank you. By the way, you do not need to remove the compoundplug.dll from that folder, you can just rename it something like "ThisDllIsCausingTheProblemcompoundplug.dll" and VMS will ignore that dll until you remove the 'this dll is causing the problem' part.

Take care!