VERY bad audio with TMPGEnc from a PVA file

[superfresko]

Hello everybody!

With my new satellite recording card, I "saved" an episode of a series I like.

So, I have this big MPEG2 file that I want to convert with TMPGEnc in a DVD compliant file, in order to author it and burn it on a DVD-R.

Problem is, if I try to convert the file with TMPGEnc, the resulting file, even though it is DVD compliant, and even though the video is ok, has _VERY_ bad audio.

Anybody knows why TMPGEnc behaves like this?

Then I tried this way:
- Extract the audio with DVD2AVI (.mpa file)
- Convert the .mpa audio file in a .wav file (with WinAMP)
- Use the .d2v as video source and the .wav as audio source forTMPGEnc

The resulting file has perfect audio (and obviously, video).

Problem is, sometimes the audio extracted with DVD2AVI is slightly delayed. How can I sync it?

Thanks for any help.

Bye,
Massi.

[bugster]

Its quite possible that the audio on the satellite is not DVD standard 48Khz audio. Therfore TmpGenc will convert it to 48Khz whne you select a DVD compliant format. It is a well accepted fact that TmpGenc's sample rate converter is not the best in the world and even the author acknowledges this by providing the facility to use external tools for this purpose (and for mp2 audio encoding). I suggest you get hold of ssrce.exe and set it up in TmpGenc as the external sample rate convereter. You could also get toolame as the mp2 audio encoder. It should help.