Audio Beating Me to Death

[purplehawk]

Hello all. I'm a newbie who has made just a few posts here and there on the forums. I've been struggling for a week to create a terrific mpeg or vcd of a movie I want to burn to CD.

The original is a divXed.avi file. I used TMPGEnc to convert it to a VCD or mpeg-1 and burned it in Nero. The video is of passable quality with only a touch of pixelation here and there. It does not, however, compare with the quality of the orginal .avi when it is viewed in a player.

I decided to try commercial software and see if I could reproduce the quality of the .avi in mpeg or vcd format. So I ran the avi file through Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.0. It produced a stellar video with no sound. I then extracted the audio in Virtual Dub, converted it to mpeg 1-layer 2 in TMPGEnc and tried to merge the two files. No go. I then tried M2-edit Pro 4.0. It liked the video just fine but I couldn't get the audio to work. It told me time and again that the audio was not a valid mpeg format.

Today I tried every encoding program I could get my hands on in an attempt to come up with a usuable audio file, all to no avail. The latest one was Xing Mpeg Encoder, but I've also tried dbPower, LSX, and a fee others.

I currently have a wonderful but soundless movie.mpg file, an .mpa audio file that still doesn't work, a .wav audio file, and the original divXed.avi movie on a hard drive. Is this just a case of a rogue audio file, or could I be missing some kind of codec that will allow the audio to process properly> Can anyone please help me figure this out?

[Kb_cruncher]

In tmpgenc try setting the motion search presision to "highest quality(very slow)".this should yeild a much better video quality.

Just use the divx movie as source for video and audio and you should be ok.

[purplehawk]

I used highest quality for the first CDs I burned. As I've said, the quality is passable but nothing like the soundless file I got in Ulead.

My problem is the audio itself. No matter what program I use, it comes up as not containing "valid mpeg coding" or "not a valid mpeg file." I tried to use a mux feature to merge a re-encoded version of the audio with the "good" video,in several different programs, and each time it errored out.

I assume there is just something wrong with this particular audio file and I can't figure out what to do with it.

[purplehawk]

I have discovered audio codec of my movie is listed as "Mpeg Layer-3 Decoder," compliments of a tip from Sefy. Is this the same as an MP3 music file?

The video is listed as "DivX Mpeg-4 DVD Video Compressor."

With this information, can anyone please tell me how to get this audio to work for a CD I wish to burn?

[purplehawk]

Thanks very much. I figured it out on my own.