Whistling sound on VCD

[Thejaff]

I made a VCD of "The man who wasn't there" from a divx using VirtualDub and TPMGenc and burning to 2 CD's with Nero. The picture quality is excellent and the sound is CD quality. However, randomly throughout both VCD theres some kind of whistling sound that can become quite annoying. Anyone ever got that problem or know what can cause this?

This is my first VCD and before I attempt another one, I'd just like to know how to fix this in case its something easy I overlooked.

Thanks

[adam]

TMPGenc's audio encoder isn't the best. If you choose to use it you should use toolame as an external encoder from within TMPGenc. Options/global settings/external tool/Layer 2->toolame.exe.

If the divx had 48kHz audio, which it probably did, then TMPGenc's frequency converter is probably the problem. This is a very common problem. When TMPGenc converts from 48kHz to 44100kHz it often creates what most people describe as a "tinny" sound. Perhaps this is what you are experiencing. To prevent this, again use an external tool from within TMPGenc. Go to the same spot where you loaded toolame and at the bottom there should be a spot for an external frequency converter. The general consesus is that the ssrc.exe (shibach encoder) has the best balance between quality and speed. Just do a google search for it, it shouldn't be hard to find...the same goes for toolame.

[musicnyman]

oh my god yeah!!! toolame and SSRC makes it sound sOOOO much better. i regret making all the older SVCD's using tmpgenc's built in frequency converter and sound encoding. it only adds about 5-10 minutes of preprocessing before it creates the SVCD/VCD. so worth it. toolame also comes wiht a lot of kewl features like normalize, for things like Camcorder videos where you want to normalize your sound and even it out. very nice.....i wouldn't use tmpgenc without this now....