Audio=Terrible

[ThePumpKinKing]

I guess this should go in this forum; I've learned A LOT from this site about VCD authoring, etc. over the past week. So now I'm burning REALLY good quality XVCD's and have been REALLY pleased with the results. However, the audio in my movies is really awful. I'm not even sure it's stereo. I'm hoping I'm not too used to my 5.1 speaker setup and asking too much from the VCD's, but is there ANY way possible to get the audio to at least come through in stereo so I can use ProLogic to make it sound better? All the movies I've burned so far have audio coming almost strictly out of my center channel and ProLogic has no effect. Is there any 3rd party software that works that will remedy this?

[dphirschler]

I'm not really the audio expert...

That being said, you sound like you are very picky about your audio. I am too, but have not noticed any problem with the audio quality. I am aware of the limitations of the mpeg-1, layer 2 (mp2) encoding. For one (correct me if I am wrong here), I believe there isn't nearly the separation between the left and right channels as is possible with uncompressed WAV files. There is some crossover and I don't think there is any way around it.

Here is a crazy workaround you could try. Invert one of the channels, thereby creating a "wide" stereo image.


Darryl

[Vejita-sama]

What's your audio source and how are you encoding it? It should be in stereo.

[ThePumpKinKing]

Darryl;

I was kind of thinking the same thing about the compression being part of the problem.

Vejita-sama:
I'm just using the avi as the audio source; using default audio settings (which say stereo but I'm not really sure about the Joint versus Dual, etc.)....