Tinny sound in convert...

[BUL]

OK--I was wondering if someone could help me diagnose this... I'm trying to transfer a basic NTSC stereo movie from VHS to DVD. Here's the problem... The capture worked just fine and the .AVI file it created (Picvideo video compression, no audio compression) is fine. When I use TMPGenc 2.511 to convert, the audio becomes very 'tinny'. I've tried both CBR Linear PCM Audio & CBR MP2 audio (using Toolame) and encountered the same exact problem.

The only thing I can think of was that I don't remember capturing the audio portion at 48k, but at 44.1k stereo. TMPGEnc keeps saying the audio portion was recorded at 48k. Could that be it or is it something different?

[p_l]

Try using ssrc.

works much better with it.

[Raavin]

The tinny sound your talking about seems to happen with basic up sampling, so converting from 44.1 to 48 would have that effect. I ended up using xing mpg to convert from a 32khz DV origin PCM source to 44.1khz mp2. Worked a treat.

I also had a problem with virtualdub audio conversion. The same ringing effect when upsampling. It also seemed to leave the original 32khz in the header of the file so even though it was actually at 44.1, it read it as 32 when opened. Thinking about it, if you are using a standard DVD template in tmpeg, then it will automatically upsample from 44.1 to 48 I think because the this is the locked preset.

Two suggestions:

* Capture from the original source, if it's analogue, at 48khz
* Create a non standard DVD, load the unlock template and change it to the originally sampled khz (can you do that???? I don't do DVD)

Raavin