Mono sound with tmpg, only uses left speaker

[rwa]

Im restoring my old home videos

they have mono sound, and all the tmpg files I create only have sound coming out of the left speaker

how can i get sound coming out of both speakers?

[KingJohn]

You could wire both speakers together ... But a better way would be to edit the sound track and copy the left channel to the right. You can load AVI (Sound) into www.goldwave.com and re-save out as stereo.

Or save WAV out in Vdub, then edit with GoldWave. Then use with TMPGEnc for your WAV source.

Vdub
Audio > full processing mode
Audio > compression > PCM (Default)
Audio > conversion > 44.1Khz
SAVE WAV

TMPGEnc also has a stereo setting.

[offline]

In the settings, adjust audio to joint stereo.

[lattedfw]

I use Quicktime Pro on the PC to export audio tracks to 16-bit mono 48KHz (DVD spec), then import that file and export again as 16-bit stereo 48KHz. I don't use the 16-bit mono file because I've had cases where the sound ran twice as fast when playing back a DVD. The resulting file has the sound in both channels.

You might even be able to use Windows Sound recorder to do the channel conversion, but don't use it for bitrate conversion (tinny aliasing effects result).

Lately I've been using an RCA Y-adapter to plug into my camcorder, thus creating two RCA plugs which go into my DV converter box. This avoids the whole export-import-export process.