Sound problem with TMPGenc

[JulieG]

This is a problem I've been having on and off with TMPGEnc, I was just wondering how I can avoid it from happening since it's happening to me a lot recently. I'm converting from HQ-avi's to SVCD and for some reason the sound on the SVCD's is a bit metallic (I hope you guys understand what I mean by that) when the sound on the AVI's is perfect. Thanx for all your guys' help in the past and hopefully on this problem. Best wishes to all,

[kimwatson]

It could be that the AVI is encoded with audio at 48000 khz.
I'm not sure with svcd format but with vcd it only likes audio at 44100 khz. I had the metalic sound like your talking about when playing on my DVD player before I worked out the problem. Try opening the avi up in sound forge or somthing and coverting it to 44100 then saving it as a seperate wave file. Then in tmpgenc use that file as the sound, and the avi as the video. Hope it helps,

Kim

[sommersby]

You can also strip the audio with Vdub and use that as your sound file, just select 44,100 under audio conversion.

[Rise]

Another possibility can be the fact that TMPGEnc has very good quality for video, but its audio conversion is pretty poor. I'm using a separate tool (toolame) in TMPGEnc to convert audio.
You can find the free tool from the address:
http://www.flexion.org/audio/toolame/

In TMPGEnc you go to "Environmental Settings" and sheet "External Tool". From there select "Layer-2" and locate the downloaded tool. Now, when you start converting it will use toolame for audio conversion and I can say that the quality is very good.

Rise