Need help with audio quality

[mojo]

I've been noticing that both my VCD and SVCD encodes (using TMPG) have fairly aliasing audio - it sounds like a poorly encoded MP3.

In my VCD templates I've been using the default, and for my SVCDs I've been usually keeping the audio at 224, but no lower than 192.

Files I've been downloading and burning sound much better, so I think I may be doing something wrong.

Any suggestions?


Thanks!
Mojo

[adam]

TMPGenc is not the highest quality audio encoder. For the actual wav to mp2 conversion toolame is probably the highest quality free encoder. You can use it from within TMPGenc. Go to the Environmental settings tab/external tool tab. Load toolame.exe under Layer-2.

TMPGenc has serious problems with its frequency converter. If you are converting your audio from 48kHz to 44100kHz though TMPGenc then this could definitley account for the quality loss. Again go to the environmental settings/external tool tab and use an external frequency converter. The general consensus is that the best free one is ssrc.exe (shibatch encoder.)