mp3 errors when using TMPgenc

[chewie8008]

Ok, i'm making a little short video w/ my own audio. I have 3 songs mixed together and am having problems w/ one song.

I have 3 mp3's. All three are 128kbps, 2 channel stereo, and 44khz audio sampling. But when I try to do a simple multiplex w/ my video and audio, I get the 'illegal audio stream' error. So I tested each song individually and found the one that it won't accept. I have tried converting the mp3 to mp2, to wav and then back to mp3. Whenever I convert it to mp2, TMPGenc will accept it but the mp2 file has some extra noise in the song. Same w/ wav, I converted it to WAV, and it sounded good, but since TMPGenc doesn't work w/ WAV files I then converted it back to mp3 and it worked, but w/ extra noise.

I DO have the codec or plugin or whatever that allows TMPgenc to use MP3 files. I have used mp3 files of the same quality and they have worked. Why would I get errors w/ this one song? I even downloaded a different quality version of the same song and tried it and got the same error.

Any help would be appreciated.

[guns1inger]

The joys of downloading poorly compressed music.

Can you play back the original song ? If so, you can record the playback using something like audacity or soundforge, and save a new version.

If you can't play it back then it is obviously too corrupted to be of use. Find a different track, or buy the CD it comes from.

[celtic_druid]

TMPGEnc probably doesn't allow multiplexing of mp3's since it isn't exactly spec compliant. There is a cl multiplexer that does. Can't remember the name though.

[chewie8008]

Yes, I can playback the original format and it sounds perfectly fine. It's when I change file formats that I get the extra noise. But it won't multiplex in it's original format. I actually merge the 3 mp3's with Goldwave, which works. I have been able to multiplex mp3 audio w/ video w/o any problems via TMPGenc. I guess I could try Audiocity or the other.

Thanks!