Audio sounds crappy when there's voice, though in sync

[faylc]

Oops, I posted in the wrong forum...

Like many other newbies, I started converting some of my old VHS-C and DV tapes on DVDs by doing pass through, but I have this small problem with audio, and I've done some searching but I still can't find the answer. The audio sounds like if you turn up the volume on some crappy speakers. Whenever there's a human voice, the last word of a sentence tend to have a higher pitch than the rest of sentence. I don't know if it's the RCA cable (came with the camcorder), the encoding part (CBR in TMPGEnc 2.5), audio capture (by Ulead VS 8.0), my crappy sound card (Realtek) or the setting on my camcorder (12 bit, or 32 htz.)

VCR: Sylvania 4-heard
DV Camcorder: JVC GRD-200
Capture: Ulead VS 8.0
Encoding: TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus
Authoring: TMPGEnc DVD author

I've tried "transferring" some DVs directly from the camcorder to the PC via firewire (no pass through), but it sounds the same.

Thanks in advance with any feedback!

[flaninacupboard]

yeah, your cam wants to be on 16bit 48khz. if you're using pass through then use DVapp or DVIO to capture the DV stream. you should be reording the video and audio in one file through your camera - no need to touch your soundcard.

also, is the sound bad on the capture and the final disc, or just the final disc?
are you using TMPGenc to encode the audio? it's audio encoder isn't very good.....

[faylc]

flaninacupboard, thanks for the quick reply.

You are right, there's only one file with both video and audio being "transferred" (or recorded) to the PC and I used Ulead VS 8.0 to do the capturing. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the JVC GRD-200 doesn't offer the 16-bit option.

The sound is bad on the final disc only, and I suspect it's either the encoding (TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus) or authoring (TMPGEnc DVD Author) part. If TMPGEnc is bad for audio encoding (I used CBR PCM), what other application is good then?

Any ideas? Thanks.