PCM Audio Question

[emhill]

I posted this on another forum, but maybe it should go here.

I captured home video from VHS to my system using the Dazzle Hollywood-DV Bridge in AVI format. I use Ulead DVD MovieFactory to capture, convert to MPEG-2, and burn the DVDR. All works well until I try to play the DVD in my standalone player. I must switch to analog input on my receiver to hear the sound. It will not play the sound when my receiver is in DVD/Digital mode. The display on my DVD player shows "MPEG" when it is playing. It plays fine on my PC and there are no synch problems on either my PC or my standalone.

I had a friend of mine capture the same VHS video and burn to DVDR using his iMac. When I play the DVDR he burned on my standalone it will play fine when my receiver is in DVD/Digital mode. The display shows "LPCM" when that DVD is playing.

What am I doing wrong when capturing/convert/burn that causes this? Is there a setting I am missing? Is there a step I am skipping? I see no PCM in the capture settings or conversion settings. Is there something else that would work better?

Thanks in advance for any help...

Dell Dimension 700Mhz
10GB Hard Drive
60GB Hard Drive (for video capture)
256MB Memory
Windows 98SE

Eric Hill
Muscle Shoals, AL
hille@wlv.com

[DJ Bobo]

I'm not sure of having understood what you mean...

Well, I'll tell what I have understood: you captured in AVI with uncompressed PCM sound, then converted the video to MPEG2, but kept the sound as is.

If that's right, I have a question: why don't you convert the sound to MP2??
With 256kbps Stereo you'll get very nice quality.

[emhill]

I do not know how to do that. Can you shed a little light?

Thanks....

Eric

[DJ Bobo]

You have to extract the sound using an utility like AVI2WAV.
Thank compress the resulting WAV file to MP2 using TMPG.
Then mux your MPEG2-Video with your MP2-Audio using bbMPEG.

[DarkAvenger]

:eek: Don't use TMPGenc for audio, use tooLame.exe

[DJ Bobo]

Well, you can also use toolame in TMPG.

Under Option -> Encironmental setting -> external tool -> layer2, give the path to toolame.exe

TMPG will then use it to encode to MP2

[DarkAvenger]

Actually I am using toolame this way, as I have no love for CLI. ;)