Static noise problem converting AVI to MPEG

[Staticnoise]

I’ve read the guides and looked around the forum but I can't seem to get a clear answer on this so I figure I’m going to need some extra help here as I’m new to this. I’ve been trying for days now to get this movie (AVI format 600MB) to play correctly, after I’ve encoded it to mpeg format. I use TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to encode the file. Authoring doesn’t matter as I can’t even get to that point.

The problem is it sounds like static does on a television once I’ve converted the file. No matter what I try or what settings I change such as audio noise reduction I can’t fix it. Odd part is the AVI file alone plays fine, that makes no sense to me because I would think if the AVI sounds fine the MPEG should too? I’ve never had this problem before with anything else I’ve converted so how do I fix it? What’s going wrong here?

thanks,

[Baldrick]

Try convert the audio with something else and see if you get same problem. You can use ffmpegui and convert the avi directly to mpeg or ac3 audio and then add the audio to the converted mpeg(multiplex) video or add it when you author.

[Staticnoise]

Thanks, your suggestion to use ffmpegui was an easy fix to the problem. I have tried another encoder and I don't get that problem. I'd like to know why my current program isn't working for this one avi though. It works fine for everything else so I don't understand it. The other encoder that worked fine is free though and it's conversions won't play on a normal DVD player so my only option is to use what I already have.

Unless, you can recommend a better encoder?

Your method should work though.

Thanks!