I found in the mrk2 version of the Technical Guide, the section on “Compressing Audio for MPEG files” to help improve the audio quality of my MPEG-2 video for convention submissions. It shows to use tooLAME.exe as an external program for better mp2 encoding.
However, in writing my AVS file following Scintilla’s Encoding Your AMV to MPEG for Convention Submission, and applying it to TMPGEnc, I get this error message:
Illegal MPEG audiostream
Everything in the AVS script works. It’s just in trying to use tooLAME as an external program for “better” mp2 encoding - it does not work. I’ve tried testing this out using different variables, with and without the external SSRC.exe sample frequency converter, stripping the AVS file down to just 2 lines - the Video and Audio source, and testing if I can even create an MPEG-1 version. - Still the same error message.
So I’m just wondering if anyone else had this problem? Is tooLAME even still useful for this operation? Is there another/better program?

