Matroska, no audio

[ahab]

I have a problem with my matroska file, converted from an avi file. The sound in the avi file is fine, however there is no sound in matroska. It was working previously on another file, but I do not know having anything changed. I have tried to play it with different players, all play the video fine, but no audio at all.
When I look at the streaming info in xine, it reads:
Audio:
has: yes
handled: yes
ignore: no
codec: unavailable
fourcc: 0x0
channel: 0
bitrate: 0
bits: 0
samplerate: 0

vlc streaming info reads:
codec: mpga
language: francais
type: audio
channels: 2
sample rate: 44100 Hz

mplayer says:
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC), -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_MPEG/L3), -aid 0, -alang fre
[mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_MPEG/L3), -aid 1, -alang ger
[mkv] Will play video track 1
[mkv] Will play audio track 2
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [DIVX] 768x432 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
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Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder

Too many video packets in the buffer: (1474 in 8422941 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
Cannot sync MAD frame
ADecoder init failed
ADecoder init failed
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3

Too many video packets in the buffer: (1474 in 8422941 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
ADecoder init failed
ADecoder init failed
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

Too many video packets in the buffer: (1474 in 8422941 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffmp3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG layer-3 audio decoder)
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Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
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alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 768 x 432 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 768x432 => 768x432 Planar YV12
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGRA special converter

Here is an excerpt of mkvinfo:
A track
| + Track number: 2
| + Track UID: 2381057695
| + Track type: audio
| + Enabled: 1
| + Default flag: 1
| + Forced flag: 0
| + Lacing flag: 1
| + MinCache: 0
| + Timecode scale: 1.000000
| + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
| + Codec ID: A_MPEG/L3
| + Codec decode all: 1
| + Default duration: 26.122ms (38.281 fps for a video track)
| + Language: fre
| + Audio track
| + Sampling frequency: 44100.000000
| + Channels: 2
| + A track
| + Track number: 3
| + Track UID: 1118514082
| + Track type: audio
| + Enabled: 1
| + Default flag: 0
| + Forced flag: 0
| + Lacing flag: 1
| + MinCache: 0
| + Timecode scale: 1.000000
| + Max BlockAddition ID: 0
| + Codec ID: A_MPEG/L3
| + Codec decode all: 1
| + Default duration: 26.122ms (38.281 fps for a video track)
| + Language: ger
| + Audio track
| + Sampling frequency: 44100.000000
| + Channels: 2

Any help is appreciated!!

Cheers,

Ahab

[ahab]

Hi again,
I tried to extract the audio from the matroska file-it is empty! I used mmg to convert the avi to mkv, and
mkvextract tracks test.mkv 2:french
to extract the mp3 file-it has 0 MB! I tried to extract it directly from the avi using:
mkvextract tracks test.avi 2:french.mp3
here the answer:
(mkvextract) No segment/level 0 element found.
progress: 100%
any idea? It worked the other day so there seems to be a problem. But not even re-installation fixes the problem
Cheers,

ahab

[samurailink3]

I'm having the same problem with an mkv file. Any ideas? Used VLC, totem (with added codecs), Mplayer.