I have a number of m4a files that don't play properly. I previously thought that it was a problem with Media Monkey, but I managed to get Media Monkey to play some m4a files and the files I know don't run in Media Monkey, iTunes, Quicktime or Media Player. Most of these players fail without useful information, but Quicktime gives the message in the title. The files that fail were originally ripped from CD on Ubuntu. Is there anyway I can fix up these files?
M4a file with Quicktime: Error – 2041: an invalid sample description was found in the movie
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Related Solutions
Install K-Lite Codec pack.
Supported formats include:
- AVI (.avi .divx)
- MPEG-PS (.mpeg .mpg .m1v .m2v .mp2v .mpv2 .evo .m2p)
- MPEG-TS (.ts .m2ts .m2t .mts)
- Matroska (.mkv .mka)
- MP4 (.mp4 .m4v .mp4v .mpv4 .k3g .mqv)
- Ogg (.ogm .ogv .ogg .oga)
- DVD/VCD/XVCD (.ifo .vob .dat)
- Flash Video (.flv)
- QuickTime (.mov .hdmov)
- RealMedia (.rm .rmvb .ra .ram)
- 3GP (.3gp .3gpp .3g2 .3gp2)
- MP3 (.mp3)
- MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a .aac)
- FLAC (.flac)
- Musepack (.mpc .mpp)
- WavPack (.wv)
- OptimFrog (.ofr .ofs)
- Monkey's Audio (.ape .apl)
- True Audio (.tta)
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.alac)
- AC3/DTS (.ac3 .dts)
- AMR (.amr)
- AMV (.amv)
- (.xm .s3m .it .umx)
I can't believe this actually worked.
I'm trying to figure out how to completely remove Microsoft Office Starter and Microsoft Office Click-to-Run on the same Windows 7 computer, and when I noticed that Click-to-Run was mounting a Microsoft Click-to-Run (Protected) (Q:) drive, I had the idea of mounting a VHD to prevent the installer from deleting and re-creating the folder.
- Open "Disk Management" or type " Create and format hard disk partitions", the latter being the text needed for Windows 10.
- Click "Action", "Create VHD". It doesn't have to be too large, but to play it safe I'd give it 5 or 10 GB. Save it to the root of your C:\ drive as "Config.Msi.vhd" or iTunes.vhd", whatever you want.
- Click "Action", "Attach VHD". Once you attach it, you have to initialize it. Do this by right-clicking Disk X where the new VHD appeared and you have the option of Master Boot Record or GPT. I chose MBT since it's just a VHD.
- After it's initialized, do a quick format of the drive by right-clicking the empty space to the right of Disk X.
- Delete the Config.Msi folder if it exists and create a new folder at C:\Config.Msi
- Now right-click the formatted partition and click, "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Set the path to C:\Config.Msi
- Try to update/uninstall iTunes/QuickTime/iCloud/Bonjour. It should work seamlessly now.
- Important! Make sure to unmount the VHD by right-clicking the folder and unmounting, or unmounting in Disk Management.
- Important! Delete the C:\Config.Msi folder so that it can be reused by other applications.
- If the Config.Msi is retained as a VHD, especially since it doesn't re-mount as a VHD on restart, it will begin to cause C:\Windows\Installer errors where no other applications can be installed or uninstalled on the computer.
To test this, I unmounted the VHD and tried to uninstall iCloud (well, actually I restarted the computer, so you'll have to remount if you want to uninstall). I received the same error and immediately canceled the installation. After I remounted the VHD, the uninstall worked instantly.
Best Answer
See this thread : error -2041: an invalid sample description was found in the movie.
Some people reported that the problem was fixed by changing the file's postfix to .3gp, while others have proposed heavier solutions that fix the encoded video file, using software such as mp4UI, VLC or Mobile Media Convert.
Question: Which operating system are you using?