Urgent: Avi movie -> VCD and low sound

[edgler vess]

Hi

After encoding (With TMPEGnc) a full legnth Avi movie to MPEG 1 (VCD)
I get a very low volume sound ( in my standalone Dvd player).
I have changed the audio setting in TMPEGnc for 400% but I get the same.

Opinions please.

Does it make any difference to use Virtualdub to extract the audio files
in terms of the sound volume ?
( I am not using Virtualdub ) ; Should I use?

or

Is there any problem with Nero burning software and low volume output?


Please I need your help.

thanks

Edgler

[Gazorgan]

Does the source have low audio? Sometimes there's nothing you can do. Yoy can stript it out with BeSweet and 'Normalize' it, a virtual requirement for DVD sources (makes the lows higher and the highs lower in relation to volume).

[edgler vess]

Does the source have low audio?

Yes,but higher than the final Vcd result.


Any more ideas?

[menace]

I just went through all this and for low volume, normalizing is the way to go, short of re-encoding it at a higher volume. you can do this in virtualdub but i think you have to convert the mpeg audio back to wav--doesn't take long. I think dvd2avi will also do it without the conversion but you'll have to check sefy's guide to be sure.

[Sefy]

If you are low volume, you can use TMPGEnc before you start the encoding to increase the volume level, just go to the Settings / Audio => Select Audio Edit and click on the "Settings" button. Use the "Change Volume" to increase by percentage, and you can use the "Play" button to test if it's high enough.