Need Help with Audio Setting in TMPGEnc (ASAP)

[rhem]

On the wizard, it askes me:




What Audio Setting should I use, I've been having troubles with bad audio quality.
P.S I have a Lame MP3 Encoder

[Forum Troll]

What format is your input audio in? It maybe being corrupted during the transcoding. If you can, make your input audio WAV, and have the output MPEG have a WAV/PCM sound. This might solve your problem.

[rhem]

I have a AVI (Video Input) MPG (Video Output) and a WAV (AUdio Input) that I made with VirtualDub. Does this help

[theDruid]

mp2 audio will be much smaller than PCM/wav; leaving you with more room to increase the bitrate for video - although as it's compressed, the quality won't be quite as good.

The quality of the audio in your output will not be any better than the input - how does your wav input sound?

Lame mp3 encoder doesn't do mp2 - but you can use tooLame, which TMPGEnc accepts as a plugin under Option->Environmental Setting->Audio Engine

cheers,
mcdruid.

[Statick]

ive just solved an ongoing audio quality problem

all u need is to set the sample rate conversion to high quality, it defaults to low (fast) quality

it seems a lot of films are encoded at 48khz when VCD is 44.1khz (or the other way round, cant remember)

either way, when it converts from one to the other, the audio turns into a digital mess - and being a sound engineer i expect only the best in audio quality, picture quality isnt so important to me

just turned this option on and suddenly everything sounds just as bad as the original encoding, as opposed to completely unlistenable

hope this helps