Sound Problem with Conversion

[nghtwlf25]

Backround. I am trying to convert some Anime to a VCD burn. It ios orginally in AVI format. VirtualDub records it at 19.181 fps or something close to that. When I open the file I get an error stating to rip the sound and save as a standard non compressed WAV file. So I set the options and off I go. I then use TMPNEG to rejoin the wav to the video to make a MPEG file.
The MPEG file works fine on my computer, no problems everything is beautiful, until I run it through Nero 5.9.
Once it has been burned to VCD I try it in my DVD player, it seems to play the picture is great, along with all the sound effects.
The problem is the voices, which are in Japanese still become grossly distorted and a little muffled, and you can't understand anything (even if you could normally understand them).

Am I missing something on this encode, or am I unable to encode this film to work properly in my DVD player?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Nghtwlf

[DJRumpy]

At a guess, I would say that nero is resampling the audio for you ( and doing it badly). I'm guessing here, since you didn't specify the frequency that the audio on this avi.

Try resampling it using TooLame, or HeadAc3 to whatever standard your burning to (VCD, VCD, SVCD = 44.1Khz | DVD =48Khz )

[nghtwlf25]

well I have been using the 44.1 frequency. Is there a way to tell Nero not to do that?
If more info would help please let me know what you need and I will be happy to try and find it for you. I will see if I can find the audio freq for the file. Will VirtualDub do this? I know it will for avi files?

Nightwolf

[DJRumpy]

Virtual Dub can report the info for AVI, or MPG (mpeg-1) files. You can also drop them into DVD2AVI and hit the PREVIEW option from the menu's. Failing that, you can also try right clicking the file, and looking at it's properties.

If the file is compliant with the format your burning (VCD for example), then nero will not modify the file in any way.

If the audio frequency is wrong, or the video resolution is wrong for your target format, it will ask to correct it for you.

If you can provide the following, it would be helpful

Resolution of your source
Audio Frequency of your source
Target Format (what your trying to burn)
background info (how you got your file from source, to your burner software..steps you took)

[nghtwlf25]

ok I opened up VirtualDub and dropped the MPEG into it and I got this message
Parsing interleavened MPEG file....no idea what that means.

the resoluation is 352x240 29.970fps
Audio Freq is 48KHz stereo, 224 Kbps later II (this seems wrong to me I think it should be 44, not 48????)
Target Format is VCD
The file is RAR, extract to a bin/cue, run through VCDGear, then trying to burn with nero.
Nero finally recognized the correct file length after deleting and re-installing everything, but I would like to know why it is non-standard and how go I make this MPEG standard before using nero.....I don't care for NEro's conversion utility, I get very low quality stuff from it.

Thanx for your help!
Nightwolf