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Chainmax
28th June 2005, 04:17
I am trying to make and MP2 using TooLame 02k from Doom9's download page, but the resulting file consists of a humming sound. While looking at the cmd window, I could glimpse an error message that said something like "...not enough memory...". This has never happened to me before and I have no idea how to solve it. My computer is a Sempron 2200+ with 256MB DDR400 ram and I used the following line for the encode:

X:\wherever\toolame.exe -m s -p 2 -b 384 input.wav output.mp2
Chainmax
7th July 2005, 23:46
Anyone?
johnman
7th July 2005, 23:53
I dont know what's the cause of your problem, but you might want to try twolame .
Chainmax
8th July 2005, 01:35
Never heard about it, but I'm going to download the build available at rarewares and report back.
Chainmax
8th July 2005, 02:19
No dice either. I played the output in WinAmp and WMP and all I got was that humming sound :(.
Chainmax
2nd August 2005, 07:05
I tried lowering the bitrate, but that didn't help either. I really don't understand what's going on. The source file plays fine, and all my previous encodes (including an earlier version of this particular file if I recall correctly) played correctly.
video_magic
2nd August 2005, 08:42
Wild guess, maybe whatever decoder is being used for the resulting files is at fault?

Are you using a 'directshow' player?

Maybe try vlc www.videolan.org or try winamp www.winamp.com
or try a recent mplayergui build from http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

( http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/gui/mplayer-gui-rtm-cvs-20050726.zip )

If you use windows, what do you have set up as your system decoder? Try chaning it or updating it, look at priorities; these are just guesses but it does seem as if looking at decoders might help - I hope it does :)

EDIT: I mean with Winamp also is there a different plugin available from what you already used for playback? With WMP does it work better after you looked at your default system codec?
Chainmax
2nd August 2005, 13:56
I always use WinAmp, in this case I tried mplayer2.exe (WMP 6.4) but it gave me the same results. Strangely enough, this time the humming sound only lasted a couple of seconds and now the file sounds normal even after jumping to different sections of it. That didn't hapen before, I just got lucky :).