Sound is really choppy

[Velvetsack]

I am at a loss. Whenever I try to burn a movie onto a VCD the sound is choppy and a little faster than the video. I have used about every software program to extract the audio from the movie files. But whenever I go to use VitualDub, and use the audio the I extracted as the audio source, the video created looks great but the sound is crap! it is real choppy.
When I goto look at the properties of the audio in the movie it says unknown(tag2000), but it is in 48000khz with 5.1 channels. Is there a way to get the audio to coincide with the video so that I can burn it to VCD? or is there a program that will extract the audio out to an Mpeg form that I can use to hopefully fix this problem?

[0 kewl]

You got AC3 for sound, use this guide:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=91588&highlight=ac3

[Velvetsack]

I used headAC3 program and it created the sound perfectly butnow when I goto reencode it with the video using TMPGe it puts the sound right back into the problem that I was originally having with the sound being too choppy and sped up.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a program that will help get the audio to encode with the video so that it sounds like it is supposed to and not crappy.? Should I not reencode with TMPGE after I extract the audio or am I missing settings? I appreciate the help.

[0 kewl]

After you have extracted your AC3 sound and converted with headac3he to WAV you need to load your original AVI as video first and then load your new WAV as audio source. If you did this and still are getting choppy sound then you might have chosen a PAL template instead of NTSC or vice versa. Also, did your original AVI play fine?

[Velvetsack]

yes the WAV played fine..just like it's supposed to, but I used the movie .avi file that i have and used the wav created with headAC3 as the audio source. But it is still coming out choppy. is there a setting that I may be missing in TMPGE? the movie file that I have says it is NTSC and has AC3 audio.

[0 kewl]

3 things:

1) You might have chosen the wrong template (PAL or NTSCFilm) when setting up your TMPGEnc.
2) You might have loaded your WAV as audio source first and then your AVI as video source in which case the AC3 sound from your AVI replaced your WAV. To avoid this you need to load AVI first and then WAV.
3) You might have made a XVCD (if you unlocked some settings) and these are not compatible with many DVD players resulting in playback problems or DVD player refusing to accept the media.