Anime to DVD

[daliya]

Hi!
I yesterday bought a home theater system, mostly because I would like to watch anime (Lunar subbed Bleach in this case) on it. I'm using surround sounds. I've used that aakte35's guide to convert .avi to mpeg. Then I converted the mpeg file to .vob files with TMPGENC DVD Author. For video bitrate i'm using 2600, so the quality is ok. On the other hand, in the original file the audio bitrate is 128kb/s. When i'm converting .avi to mpeg I put audio bitrate to 192kb/s. I don't know why, but the audio quality is not too good. The sound is like.. shaking in a strange way, and you can hear that especially from the rear speakers. So, I'm just asking any tips to make the audio quality better? I'm burning 10 episodes on one DVD so I think I can lift up the video quality a little bit too =P

Info in GSPOT (original .avi anime): 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 - 48000Hz 128 kb/s total (2 chnls)

Info in FFMPEG settings: @set audiobitrate=192 - @set bitrate=2600

Info in TMPGEnc DVD Author: Compression format: mpeg-1 audio layer-2 - sampling frq: 48000Hz - Channel Mode: Stereo - Multi audio mode: monolingual - Re-encoding bitrate: 192kbps

[mats.hogberg]

You could try reencoding the mp3 to AC3 instead with ffmpeggui, to see if that helps.
Since it's mp3, it's not surround ("just" stereo) anyway.

/Mats