Bad audio on XVCD

[karen0302]

I have been trying to make a VCD. I use Ulead MS 6 to create an AVI file and the Ligos MPEG Encoder to convert it to MPEG-1. The characteristics I use are 352x240, 29/97 fps, 2500 Kbps and an audio rate of 224 Kbps. The MPEG-1 file plays perfectly in Windows Media Player but when I use Nero to create the VCD, the sound is *always* garbled badly.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how I might fix this? Thanks!

[Psycho_Dad_Rules]

Hi,

If you burned the vcd. Does this problem happen with the vcd on your PC, or on your standalone VCD/DVD player ?

What you could try is converting the avi to a fully VCD compliant VCD file and burn this with nero. See what happens.

Hope this helps.

pSyChO dAd

[karen0302]

Thanks for the reply Dad! <G>

I think I've got a handle on the problem now. I did a lot of experimenting last night and finally noticed a pattern in what was going wrong. As it turns out, it was a bandwidth problem on my JVC player. It seems as if the player, when a VCD is nearing or exceeding the players maximum bandwidth, steals bandwidth from the audio stream to handle the video stream. I dropped everything down to a lower data rate and the audio was fine. Now it is just a question of finding the maximum data rate I can use with the player.

Thanks again!

Karen