AVI > mpg2 - Audio quality sucks river water...

[crjackson]

Is there anyway to make the encoders (TMPGEnc+ Cinema Craft 2.64) stop messing up the audio?

The audio in the AVI file sounds great. After encoding, no matter what bit/rate I uses, weather stereo or Joint-stereo, the sound is tinny. Like part of it's coming out of a tin-can with a wire transmitter from another tin can.

If in encode using Studio 7, the sound is perfect but the picture quality isn't as good so I'm trying to avoid their encoder.

I think it's because TMPGEnc/CCE arn't doing PCM audio but rather mpg audio. I don't know for sure though.

Can someone tell me how to fix the problem?

[Tommyknocker]

Load the video into Virtual Dub. Select File-->Save wav.... Load the original video into TMPGEnc as input video and the .wav file as input audio and Start. This should solve your problem.

[crjackson]

Cool. I'll give that a try tomorrow. I have to wait until it's finished encoding the current movie.

Is there no way to simply tell the encoder to use the correct format.

You'd think a $19,000.00 encoder like Cinema Craft would be able to do that already. After all, Studio 7 doesn't have the audio problem, and it's cheap.

[crjackson]

Strange as it seems, the audio problem just went away for no know reason. The only thing I can figure is that it was hardware related. All I did was reboot and BANG! Problem gone!

I run XP and tend to not reboot some times for weeks at a time. I think this had something to do with it. I just don't know what.

[crjackson]

Okay I tried and couldn't get this to function properly. Is there an APP that will take the unaltered WAV file, and the MPV file and Multiplex them together with out messing with the sound of the audio.

The problem is that when using TMPGEnc the final product is always missing Bass tones, leaving the remaining to sound like it's coming from a 3" tweeter (a cheap, poor sounding, busted one at that).

The sound if fine when using any other program (ie Pennacle Studio 7).

I'm using CCE to proces the MPV, TMPGEnc to extract the MP2 from original AVI, the TMPGEnc to Multiplex them at 384kbps stereo.

I'd like to find another program to multiplex using original Extracted WAV and CCE's MPV files.

Any suggestions?

[snowmoon]

toolame seems to produce good audio even at sub-optimal bitrates ( i've done j-stereo at 128 for simple non-musical stuff ). I then use Tmpgenc or bbMPEG to multiplex the two files together.

I cap in avi_io, cleanup and split audio with vdub, encode video in CCE and audio in toolame, multiplex, VCDEasy... done.