No audio after converting with TMPGEnc

[mickilea]

I have a captured VHS tape of my son's basic training graduation which I am trying to put on DVD. I downloaded a trial version of TMPGEnc Express and TMPGEnc Editor and have tried it with both. I have edited out the bad portions and then encoded. I get perfect video but no sound at all. I have gone through all the guides to make sure that all my settings are correct but still no sound. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.

[Forum Troll]

Do you have the capture on your HDD as an AVI? You might open it in Virtualdub, use that to save the audio as a WAV, edit it, then frameserve the video to TMPGENC and use the wav you created as the audio source.

[mickilea]

My capture card captures it as a mpg file. This is a 100 minutes file and if I do it the way you suggest, it will take a week of encoding etc to do the job. I edited down to 36 minutes, encoded with TMPGEnc Express and that took 12 hours (with no audio). When I used TMPGEnc Editor, it took 30 minutes to encode but still no audio. The video is great and can be authored with TMPGEnc DVD Author and burned on a DVD, but no audio. I do not understand why Express takes 12 hours to encode and Editor only 30 minutes and I end up with the exact same results. If I use VirtualDubMod, that will take about 12 hours also, then another 12 or so hours in TMPGEnc and it is very confusing. TMPGEnc Express and Editor is supposed to give me both video and audio. I shouldn't have to go through all these gyrations and it is frustrating.. Thank you for your suggestion, but is there anyone who has actually used either of these new TMPGEnc programs and got them to work? Thanks.

[Forum Troll]

Seems to me that something is wrong, either with your hardware or software settings.

[mickilea]

I have had nothing but problems with TMPGEnc (except DVD Author), but yesterday I discovered another prorgram, VIDEOREDO, that is awesome. It has done what TMPGEnc couldn't, even load the whole file on some that TMPGEnc considered corrupted. Whereas TMPGEnc took 12 hours to encode (and with no audio), VIDEOREDO took 30 minutes. I admit the video quality is a tad less, but I can definitely live with that. And I get perfect video and audio sync. I am chucking my TMPGEnc and buying VIDEOREDO. Thanks for all your help, though. I appreciate it.