Hi folks,

I'm having really annoying sound problems at the end of my pipeline. I'm trying to make an SVCD of 1/2 hour of video.

Here's the pipe:
VCR
-> S-Video / audio cables
-> IBM Thinkpad A31p, Phillips capture card
-> VirtualDub Capture, 640x480, CD quality sound. (few frames lost.)
-> AVI file
-> Virtual Dub, sound extraction -> WAV file
-> TMPGEnc, SVCD encoding (NTFS, video type, defaults)
-> .MPG file (MPEG-2, I suppose)
-> Nero Burning ROM, Plextor drive
-> Daewoo DVD player

The deal is, everything in this pipe looks and sounds great up until I try to watch the CD in my DVD player. It's fine for a minute or so, then I get crackling in the audio track. It's not terrible, you can still understand what everyone's saying, but it's not very pleasant.

I've watched the MPG file on my computer, and there's no audio trouble there.

The sample rate of the audio, from start to finish, is always 44.1 kHz, so there should be no trouble with sample rate conversions - right?

Has anyone got a clue? I've tried writing at slower speeds, and I get exactly the same result. I now have 3 CDs with identical crackling problems. I had originally not separated the AVI and the WAV for the encoding, but doing so made no difference.

I don't know what else I can tweak.