Converted VCD clicks & pops

[bebopdeluxe]

Hey all, great place. I will attempt to give you all the tech details so you can easily and quickly fix my problem
The box: AMD K6-2 400 with 128 RAM
The job: I have converted 2 files from divx to VCD (ntsc) using the standard TMPGEnc template. I used VirtualDub to extract the audio to a wav file and am using this for the audio portion of the conversion.
The problem: When playing back the converted files the sync is perfect, the quality is very good but I am getting annoying clicks and pops that are not in the original divx files. Not sure if this matters at all but this was done over night so nothing else was running during the conversion. Could this be a lack of horsepower? Any and all ideas welcomed, thanks for reading!

[bugster]

Could this be a lack of horsepower?

No way. Horsepower cannot affect this process except for how long it takes.

I would take a look at the sample rate conversion process. When you extract the audio in vdub, I guess you used full processing mode, compression PCM. You should also check the conversion option in the audio menu and select 44100 sample rate (if its not at that already) and encode with that. If you still have poor audio, try using toolame as the mp2 encoder within tmpgenc. Look to the guides for deatils and tools section for toolame.

Hope this helps

[bebopdeluxe]

Thanks bugster, will try that with next couple of conversions. I just realized I had it on "direct stream copy" not full processing mode, doh!