Demuxing Huffy Capture & Editting Audio File

[jorwex]

Why is it that after I capture using my ATI AIW Radeon 32 DDR AGP card, then convert to a standard NTSC VCD mpg and then in TMPGEnc in "MPEG TOOLS" use the simple demultiplex function...that i can't edit the audio file in Cool Edit?

When I open the resulting mp2 file into Cool Edit, all i get is a bunch of static!!

If i convert the file to WAV or MP3 or something tho, it works fine! I feel that when I do the conversion and then edit, that I am losing precious quality!!!!!


PLEASE HELP!!!!

My specs are:
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VIA Apollo 133A Chipset
Win XP
Pentium 3/900 mhz
768 MB SD-RAM
120 GB Western Digital WD1200JB (SE Caviar w/ 8 MB Cache Buffer)
40 GB Maxtor 34098H4
Samsung SD-612 DVD-ROM
LiteOn 52246S (6S07)
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32 MB DDR AGP
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[jorwex]

pls help ...plsssss

[DJRumpy]

You cannot 'edit' an MP2, or MP3, so any editor is uncompressing your audio, and recompressing to your output anyway. I doubt you'll notice a difference in quality, as long as your output bitrate matches or exceeds your input bitrate. Audio compression schemes like MP3 remove audio frequencies that are normally outside of the range of hearing. The lower the compression, the more frequencies are removed, until they eventually drop into the audible range, and the distortions/loss becomes noticable. Just convert them to wav, and dont' sweat the small change.

Does Cool Edit support MP2?

[jorwex]

thanks,

i found these two things:

http://support.syntrillium.com/kb/kbDetail.html?120

http://www.qdesign.com/products/about_products/acm.htm

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they say you can buy a plugin. but you can also 'extract audio from video" from cooledit's filemenu...but u can't save it..o well..thanks!