Tinny Audio?

[NeWcS]

Sometimes when I play back a VCD the audio sounds tinie. I shtere a way to improve the audio?

Im taking a DivX and ripping the audio w/ VD(As explained on this site) then loading it into TMPG w/ SeVCD templete.

-Thanx

(Dont know any other way to explain it except of tinie, like talking through a tin can)



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[damnim]

NeWcS

That "tinnie" sound is caused by the compression method that was used on the audio. You will here this in compressed music videos that have the .asf, .asx extension alot.

I have tried using Soundforge to take this "tinnie" sound out but the compression has taken out the original "data" of the source to such an extent I don't think its possible. Soundforge, in my opinion is the best for audio editing. I have been able to get the audio to sound better but not enough. Usually what I do is rip the audio track out and put another in and resync it.

[JumboTech]

Usually "tinny" audio is caused by a mismatch in audio sampling frequency. In other words and for instance - Your input file's sample frequency is 48k, but VCDs require 44.1k. There are several programs that you can use to resample your audio before you encode it. One is SCMPX but I've seen a lot of folks recommend something like Toolame. Somebody will help you with the proper name.

Hope this helps...

Al

[jan_hut]

Wavelab is pretty good too when it comes to editing your audio. What you can do is use virtualdub to extract your audio and resample it in wavelab. Additionally you may want to use an equalizer plug-in of some sort to add some bass and tweak the dynamics. Soundforge has some real good plug-ins for that as well.

[bravo]

i think cool edit pro is the best.u can widen stereo separation.u can also sample the noise in your audio and remove it from the whole track lick a hiss or a hummm gone instanly.

[jan_hut]

Yeah but those options all come with wavelab and soundforge as well, tho sometimes in separate plug in.
Dartpro is pretty good for brushing up sounds as well. But I have to agree that cooledit is the most newbie friendly. I havent tried it before but you might actually get some good results using the wave writer option in winamp and the dfx plugin.

[damnim]

I guess the best way is to demux the audio and video and tinker with the audio in whatever program you have for audio editing.

When it sounds good enough to you, remux it and your good to go.

In my case, I download those music video's and automatically strip the audio and rip one of my CD's resync the audio to the video and create a SVCD out of it. If I don't have the audio then I just mess with it until it sounds good. I do it this way because I personally found trying to restore an improperly compressed audio sample is like trying to get a date with Britney Spears. It's just not going to happen.