TMPGEnc Plus and AVI sound

[busdonic]

If anyone has any insight on the problem below I’d appreciate the help. I am in the middle of switching to a new computer, which brings all sorts of problems concerning codecs, apps, etc… I use TMPGEnc Plus to encode a lot of avi’s to DVDs. Recently I’ve run into this problem: when I check the audio in the source range window (just to make sure it’s there) for an avi that I have, on the new computer it’s completely flat. Yet when I check that same avi on the old computer, the sound shows up in the source window. Please note that I am not using a wav file generated out of something like VirtualDub as a separate sound source—I am using the avi file itself. Gspot says the audio in the avi is VBR.
What am I missing on the new computer that is making/preventing the sound from showing up? Thank you for any hints or advice.

[Jim44]

Maybe compare the VFAPI settings between the installations of TMPGEnc (in the "Environmental settings).

But frankly, I've given up giving TMPGenc Plus anything with VBR audio. I simply extract the audio as a WAV in VDubMod and give that to TMPGEnc Plus. I end up with better, more consistent results that way. YMMV.

Hope that helps,
Jim

[akrako1]

I don't bother letting TMPGEnc touch the audio at all. Sometimes it'll recognize it, and still give you a blank wav. I convert my video only with TMPGEnc, and drop the .avi into Goldwave to get the audio. Goldwave has no problems with vbr mp3 audio in avi's. I'll encode the wav to ac3, and only bring the audio and video back together when authoring. I've never had any sync problems doing this as well.

[busdonic]

thanks for the ideas. I used to always extract the audio separately but got lazy and was just doing the procedure like I described above. I'll definitely look at the VFAPI settings.

[nTekka]

If your lazy like I am and still want some what an all in one package, go download TooLame.exe and Lame.exe or something similar and use it as your Audio engine for TMPGEnc 2.5 Plus. Works wonder on VBR MPEG audio without converting to WAV.

[busdonic]

seems to be a divx codec thing, cuz i played around with installing diff versions of it and success was found with installation of divx 5. works just like the older computer. thanks for everybody's ideas.