What do I need to encode a video using MP3 sound?

[UmBongo]

Using TMPGEnc, Virtualdub, etc, how can I encode my videos' sound into MP3, or even Ogg Vorbis? At the moment I do not have the option, only MPEG layer 2 sound or WAV and whatnot.

[Don2050]

Virtualdub should encode to mp3 if you have the codec installed...

otherwise....you can encode the audio seperatley using Heada3he or BeSweet or any lame based front end.... then mulitplex them together with VirtualDub Mod...

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/mp3.html for any lame stuff

I think headac3he and besweet are in the tools section....

[UmBongo]

Thank you!

I was able to have TMPGEnc use lame.exe to encode the sound.

What I am doing; I record some TV shows onto my hard drive with my new AverDVB-T card, it is digital TV. I want to be able to encode shows and clips for distribution over internet, mainly. it captures video at high resolution MPEG2.

I tried using VirtualDub(Mod) for encoding but it is difficult to get the aspect ratio and compressor right, and it does not seem to do the MP3 encoding right, I did a comparison and there was no difference, so I'll have to look deeper into it. Learning and understanding all the jargon is rather difficult.

[FulciLives]

If the video part is MPEG2 then you should really use MP2 sound or AC-3 sound as MP3 sound muxed with a mpeg-2 video stream is non-standard.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[UmBongo]

By the way, I tried to get the headache program but the zip is bad, they all are.

Thanks again.

[UmBongo]

FulciLives, Yes the source video is high quality MPEG2, but I want to create compressed videos at 352x288 in a different format, for small file sizes, for distribution. I've used Windows Movie Maker that came with XP but it's not satisfying, and does not maintain the aspect ratio.

[FulciLives]

FulciLives, Yes the source video is high quality MPEG2, but I want to create compressed videos at 352x288 in a different format, for small file sizes, for distribution. I've used Windows Movie Maker that came with XP but it's not satisfying, and does not maintain the aspect ratio.

OK sorry I thought you were trying to mux MP3 audio with MPEG2 video. For internet distribution of files you really can't beat the MPEG4 codecs such as DivX or Xvid. I use DivX myself sometimes and it is very easy to use. The best program for creating DivX is GORDIAN KNOT which you can download from the doom9 website. There is also an excellent guide on doom9 on how to use GORDIAN KNOT.

BTW I never realized this before (just found out not too long ago) but you can run a MPEG2 file (such as filename.mpg) through DVD2AVI and get a D2V project file and seperate audio file. You can then use the D2V project file in GORDIAN KNOT.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Here is a LINK to the doom9 website:
http://www.doom9.org/

[UmBongo]

Thanks loads, After a lot of working out I was finally able to make a good Xvid movie. There's so much involved and I'm pretty sure there needs to be a new guide for this. I'm writing down all the procedures I did to finally have this success.

[UmBongo]

There's just one thing (as usual!)

The sound is perfectly in-sync in WMP, but out of sync in DivXPlayer! This is strange to me, because in my experience it is always the other way round.

[FulciLives]

Thanks loads, After a lot of working out I was finally able to make a good Xvid movie. There's so much involved and I'm pretty sure there needs to be a new guide for this. I'm writing down all the procedures I did to finally have this success.

Although I only do DivX the new GORDIAN KNOT also does Xvid. GORDIAN KNOT makes DivX creation very easy so you might want to try it for Xvid creation.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
The doom9 website now has seperate GORDIAN KNOT guides ... one for DivX and one for Xvid.

[UmBongo]

P.S.
The doom9 website now has seperate GORDIAN KNOT guides ... one for DivX and one for Xvid.

Yes, what I was having so much rouble doing was, well my digital TV card exports a single MPG file, it is just a regular HD-space hogging MPEG2 file. All the guides I have found focus on DVD ripping (VOB's and whatnot). To summarise what I am doing:

I start with a single MPEG-2 file,
1. Cut out the adverts of a TV show
2. Compress the edited movie into a good quality but small file size video!

As you probably know, nothing ever goes according to plan

[Don2050]

As you probably know, nothing ever goes according to plan

I noticed this too....

Incase, here is guide going over the xvid codec setup..

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/xvid_setup.html

I like xvids results, and I like to support open source projects.

Is DivX player the only player the sound goes out of sync ?

[UmBongo]

I'm not sure what was wrong with that old test encode; I've progressed since then and got good results, I have found the most pleasing results with Xvid codec!

When importing my finished movie into VirtualDubMod for editing and direct Stream Export, I got the message about the sound being out of sync, but If I clicked "NO do NOT rewrite the header" then movie exports fine with no out of sync sound.

So now to share on Kazaa, I've done last nights episode of Bo' Selecta!, at 97MB for a 24 minute show, in proper PAL 16:9 (352xsomething) and in my opinion it's a very good result.

This moment I am ripping Chris Morris's short film (12 minutes) "My Wrongs..." into about a 200MB xvid file with high quality sound and proper PAL 16:9 - as is the source, 640xsomething, to share on Kazaa again.

Does anyone know how I can add information to the xvid.avi file, such as Artist, Title, Encoded by, that sort of thing?

[UmBongo]

I forgot, Fulci, thankyou for pointing me to Gordion Knot rippack, It is the business ( except I needed a newer version of VirtualDubMod)

Gordion Knot should be the first thing a newbie gets pointed to.