Mpeg Layer 2 Audio Problems

[daigoba66]

OK guys, i have a pretty wierd problem.

For a long time I have been using TMPGenc to create VCDs and SVCDs, and most recently (a few months) have been using Lame and SSRC for the Mpeg Layer-2 encoding. I have not had a problem until last month when I noticed that the audio from a VCD had this very strange high-pitched whine. I knew that it was not in the original source audio, and it only appears when encoding layer-2; layer-1 and layer-3 sound fine. To make things worse, ANY mpeg audio encoder I use gives me the same result for layer-2. I went ahead and decoded the bad layer-2 to wav, and the whine was gone. I tried playing on different pcs, each have the same result. I've tried re-encoding them on different pcs, still the same result. Its not my mpeg audio decoder because older VCDs still sound fine. I've tried all kinds of source audio, every possibly bitrate, frequency, etc., all produce the same result. I've been driving myself insane over this problem. Does ANYONE have any ideas!?!

[relight]

No one ever answered this post, and I am having the same problem. Anyone, please??

[poopyhead]

have you tried loading the .wav into tmpgenc and let that do the audio encoding?

[relight]

Thanks for replying. Of course I tried extracting the audio first using VirtualDub and then load the wav file. The wav file sounds perfect but TMPGEnc screws it up.

Well I found the answer to my problem in another thread. Download SSRC (http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/download/ssrc-1.29.zip) and use it to convert the audio frequencies, choose it inside TMPGEnc's external options. Hopefully someone else who reads this thread, but might miss the other one as I first did, will solve their problem too now! And thanks to moderator Adam who wrote the solution in the other thread.