Help please.

[tosca]

I just encoded a file to mpeg1 for VCD. When I play it through Windows media there is no sound. The movie I downloaded before encoding works fine. What have I done wrong?

[Hardcoreruss]

Sounds like a codec problem. Run your file through gspot and install the relevant codecs.

AC3 audio would be my guess

[tosca]

I ran it through gspot and this is what it said for audio '0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3'

Then because I haven't a clue what I'm doing (but trying hard to learn ) I went to render and got this ' Video path (S) --> AVI Splitter --> 3ivx D4 Video Decoder --> (R), Audio Path (S) --> AVI Splitter --> MPEG Layer-3 Decoder --> (R). But I don't know what to do from here. Do I still use TMPGEnc to encode it again. I'm sorry I'm just not understanding where to go from here, or what it is that I need

[tosca]

I think I have it under control thanks to the great reading material on this forum I have converted the audio file to a wav. Now I am using TMPGEnc. I pulled up the avi file for video, and I pulled up the new audio wav file for the audio and am now encolding to VCD. I hope I am doing it right. I think I am.

Thanks for this great forum!

[tosca]

Hmmmmm, well that didn't work.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[indolikaa]

It sounds like it should have. VCD audio has one setting: 224 kbps MPEG-1 Layer-II @ 44.1 kHz. TMPGEnc should handle this automatically. Did you use the Wizard in TMPGEnc or did you set everything manually?

[Moonstomp]

Tosca,

Check that in TMPGenc you have ticked "Video & Audio" in the "Stream Type". (Sounds like you may have ticked "Video Only".)

good luck,

Moonstomp.

[Timmychuck]

Try using this guide
https://www.videohelp.com/divxtovcd.htm

[tosca]

Timmychuck, I did use this method and converted the audie to wav. I tested it and it worked. However when I used TMOGEnc to convert to VCD it still didn't work, and I think also the audio file may have been bigger than the video file because when I played it in windows media after the movie had finished the screen was black and still playing. I think it may have been due to the audio, but I am guessing because I couldn't hear any sound.

When using TMPGEnc I pulled up both audio and video to convert to VCD, I didn't use the wizard but I did use a template.

[tosca]

I am following https://www.videohelp.com/divxtovcd.htm again. I have done everything so far including splitting the movie. Now I am up to the encoding. I go to preview to see how it's going and once again no sound I made the mistake before of not setting it to PAL because frame rate is 25000, but this time I checked everthing again. I just don't now what I'm doing wrong now.

[tosca]

This is the audio codec that I have converted to wav. (found in file information)
Fraunhofer IIS Mpeg Layer - 3 codec. Does this shed any light.

[ZippyP.]

I go to preview to see how it's going and once again no sound

Since when does TMPGEnc's preview have sound? Try encoding a short clip using the source range function to select it. Test the final output.

[andkiich]

TMPGEN doesn't preview the audio when encoding.

However, if you want to see if the audio is being encoded at the same time the video will, before starting the encode, go into the SOURCE RANGE section, make sure the show audio checkbox is marked. Then scroll through the source and if the Oscilliscope looking think is moving, then TMPGEN is able to understand the audio and should convert it properly. If it doesn't understand or have the correct codec for the audio installed, it will be flatlined.

[tosca]

This is the first time I have used the TMPGEnc to preview, and I didn't know it did not preview sound, sorry. So I will go ahead and encode it and then test it in windows media.

[tosca]

Thanks for your help. I was able to fix the problem and burn onto CD.