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Zak0
27th July 2003, 10:21
For whatever reason, the audio for my source material is encoded as 192k MP2. I've already taken the video and encoded it using XviD. It looks great, but now I need to mux in the audio...

I can decode the MP2 to WAV and re-encode as MP3 before muxing using virtualdubmod, but it sounds lousy. Is there any way to get the original MP2 source audio muxed with the XviD video? VDubMod doesn't seem to want to do it (every time, the resulting AVI file plays back with no audio).

Thanks,
-Zak
killingspree
27th July 2003, 14:32
you could try to use avimux_gui instead!

anyway, i do not know if it is supported at all. therefore and because i think mp2 @ 192 kbit is a waster of bitrate/movie quality i would recommend that you go for an mp3 instead anyway!

steVe
manono
27th July 2003, 19:43
Hi and welcome to the forum-

I use HeadAC3he (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/headac3he-0.23a.rar) for such things. It should convert it to MP3 easily and with good quality.
Zak0
27th July 2003, 23:53
Originally posted by killingspree
you could try to use avimux_gui instead!

anyway, i do not know if it is supported at all. therefore and because i think mp2 @ 192 kbit is a waster of bitrate/movie quality i would recommend that you go for an mp3 instead anyway!

steVe Yeah, I wouldn't pick MP2 @ 192 if I had a choice, but that's how the original audio came to me. I really don't want to convert it to MP3 if I don't have to - an MP2 converted to MP3 sounds like CRAP!

I'll look for avimux_gui and see if it can glue the MP2 and XviD together. Thanks.

-Zak
Zak0
27th July 2003, 23:54
Originally posted by manono
Hi and welcome to the forum-

I use HeadAC3he (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/headac3he-0.23a.rar) for such things. It should convert it to MP3 easily and with good quality.

I'll give it a try, but I can't imagine anything taking an already highly compressed MP2 and converting it to MP3 without sounding crappy.

Thanks,
-Zak
Wilbert
28th July 2003, 12:21
It's possible, if you really want to do it. See AviSynth faq Q2.9. Just put a wave-header on it and mux it with vdub. You need to have an ACM codec to mux/play it ...