Sound Problem

[phs]

Hi All

Am having problems with sound after converting Avi files with TMPGEnc to Mpg. The sound is fine on the Avi file but after encoding, the Mpg and resulting VCD plays the video fine but the sound is all gargly and distorted. I have encoded and burnt many VCD's successfully before using the same method I am trying now but recently had computer problems and had to use my restore disk and to cut a long story short had to download all my encoding programs/utilities, codecs, etc again.
So I am wondering if perhaps there are some settings in TMPGEnc that need adjusting or if I am missing something else that I forgot to note down and download again.
Any help would be much appreciated.

[theDruid]

hi phs,

2 things:

1. I'd personally recommend using tooLame and SSRC as the audio engine in TMPGEnc - I think the quality of the audio in the eventual output is much better.

(You need to download tooLame and SSRC, and then tell TMPGEnc where they are in Option->Environmental Setting->Audio Engine).

2. What are the details of the audio stream in the avi you're trying to convert? Use GSpot and/or VirtualDub to find this out.

(If the audio on the source is mp3, you may want to (re)install LAME, and check that Windows is using that to decode mp3).

cheers,
mcdruid.

[honorarybrutha]

sounds like it could be an ac3 audio problem. install Odio Dekoda.

[phs]

Still no joy anymore ideas from anyone plz. Not sure if it means anything but the sound at the start seems to be fine just goes gargly about half way through. Happening on everyone avi file I try to encode.