MP3 screwed up on my system?!?!

[Tornberry]

No matter what, I cannot encode my WAV files for my movie encodes (in VirtualDub). This has started recently, and I'm not sure what has caused this. VirtualDub will hang and "not respond" if I choose ANY mp3 codec to encode the uncompressed WAV. Whether it is Franhourne (Radium) or LAME. If I don't encode the audio, then my encode goes by smoothly just as always. I tried reinstalling the mp3 codecs from every method possible. I did it from the Kimo Package, the Tsunami Package, and even just downloading the seperate install files. This had no luck. Can someone PLEASE help me out here. It's just about the only issue holding me back from continuing my encodes, and I've got to finish them soon.

(Yes I even tried different builds of VirtualDub.)

-Tornberry

[Kb_cruncher]

i am not sure what the prob you have is but i would recomend doing your audio seperatly and then muxing it after with nadub.

external encoders usually are faster anywayz.try "besweet" if you can deal with all the settings.if not use "Razorlame"its simple to use.

[Tornberry]

I have Razor LAME, MPEGSuite 2001, and Front Blade. I'm very familiar with them as I have used them before, only for smaller audio files such as songs.

To have to use this everytime I want to make a movie/series encodes would be a drag since I would need twice the amount of space on my harddrive. One for the video with no sound, and the other for when I add the audio to the video. Could this be a Windows problem?

The thing that pisses me off is that this happened all so randomly...

EDIT: No wait! That WILL work. I was interpreting it wrongly. After compressing the WAV into MP3, I can just use Direct Stream Copy for the Audio, and then compress the video like I normally would (with Xvid.) The only extra space I'll need is however big the final mp3 turns out to be. Thanks for the idea man! :)

-Tornberry:p

[Kb_cruncher]

your on to it dood.

even better....if you can get your head around "besweet" or "headac3he" there won't even be an intermediate wav file as these two progies transcode from ac3 straight to mp3(or ogg:D ).