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bennyd
23rd March 2003, 03:36
alas, i have searched for the last few days but have found nothing.

i am trying to put a movie on a pair of svcd's so i can play it in my player.
i am using tmpEnc and nero to make the svcd.

my first attempt had great picture quality, but no sound :(
this was just setting tmpenc to handle everything.
i thought that it might have ac3 soundtrack that i had missed but no.
then i tried ripping the soundtrack in goldwave to a standard 16 bit wav file as virtuaDub brought up a vbr warning.
listened to the wav file, and everything is fine, sounds good.

go to put the video together and it seemed to work fine.
whacked it in the player and the sound is choppy.
i then though it might be the bitrate that was a bit too high (2300), so i dropped that a bit and re-encoded (a test section) but still has choppy sound.

i have only been in the heady world of cdr's and vcd's for a week but i am stumpted.

if anyone can help or direct me to a solution i would be very greatful.

ben

PS. apologies if this post has been covered many times or if it is posted in the wrong section but i'm not sure on this forum's ettiquette, thanks again.

bennyd
24th March 2003, 01:09
wow, yeah cheers for that

very helpful

frank
24th March 2003, 17:29
Hey, what about reading Doom9's guides?

htc10825
24th March 2003, 17:41
too few info... too many things are possible...
you have to inspect it more...

How it sounds in Windows Mediaplayer(by d-click on the resulted .mpg file) AND in WinDVD4/PowerDVD4(by inserting the resulted SVCD in your CD/DVD-drive)?

bennyd
26th March 2003, 00:54
i have already read all doom9 guides about audio, aswell as a few on vcdhelp.com

the mpg sounds fine in media player
the svcd sounds "fuzzy" in power dvd xp

by fuzzy i mean that it does not skip but has noise in the sound.

SKD_Tech
27th March 2003, 04:14
The VBR warning in VirtualDub was because VDub doesn't support VBR "Variable Bit Rate" it only supports CBR "Constant Bit Rate" use NanDub for VBR

htc10825
27th March 2003, 14:50
You can also use VDub to decode the VBR-audio to wave: choose "audio"/"full processing mode", then "file"/"save wave".
Load the wave file into a wave editor to see the the properties of wave file: # of channels(mono or stereo), sampling freq.(11k/22k/32k/44k/48k) and precision(8 or 16bit). Or with WinAmp 2.x/(3.0?) under "File Info"(Alt+3). To ensure the correct playback, the audio input file must be 44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo. In TMPG select the wave file as audio input file.
Authoring the result mpg file in VCDEasy or at least in newer Nero version (v5.5.10.07b or v5.5.10.15)