Cinema Craft Encoder, won't give me the audio (mpa file)

[postul8or]

When using Cinema Craft encoder to encode my YUY2 raw capture to MPEG-2 I am not getting the audio file with it. What can be wrong here?

I'm using 3 pass VBR settings....min 300, max 2520 and average 2300.

Any ideas anyone.

Advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Poplar]

Encode audio separately and in CBR mode only. Some versions of CCE SP might work in VBR mode, but I haven't tested them.

[postul8or]

I am pretty sure at some point it was working in VBR, then stopped working...

I got my hands on a copy of 2.66 and at least there is an audio file now. The main problem I have is I can't do the trick where I select my 00.avi file and then add the rest on to the end so that it all encodes into 1 big mpv/mpa file. Also, Virtualdub as a frame server (I was sure to name the frame server with a .avi extension which works in SP) is producing an error and won't work in 2.66. So now I guess I'm stuck with the task of biting the bullet and trying what I assume is a less user friendly AVISynth to do the frameserving.

If AVISynth doesn't work the first words out of my mouth will be "who's the F**KING idiot that coded CCE, it can't even accept a file to do it's magical encoding".