Audio not playing atuomatically?!

[delirium_sj]

Dangitall!
I got my audio from a CD made a wav, put it in my Premiere Elements 2.0, finished editing, made a another wav of the project, put it in Besweet and made a 320 mp3...everything works fine...now here comes the WTF?! part...

I had to render the video part of my project like 10+ times to get this stupid red flicker to not show up. It's at an odd size I had to keep because of my original widescreen source footage I didn't get from DVD but looks nice. Anyway, finally got the video, put it into VirtualDubMod, attached the mp3 stream and did the Xvid 2 pass save. I've done this like 3 times now and every time the audio won't automatically play! If I scroll around the vid the sound comes up and I can move the slider to the beginning to hear it all but I can't figure out why it's not working right away. I've played it in Winamp and WMP w/ the same results. Help?

My audio is at 44khz 320kbps 2stereo channels...I dunno if that helps but I don't know where to look
My vid is 464x256 frame rate is 23.somethingblahblah used Lagarith to get it out of Premiere.

I know this doesn't really belong here but I had a video question too...my vid is a teeny tiny bit darker than in my editor, normally wouldn't matter but it's Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust so it's already pretty dark...is that just how it is? or is there something I can do? Some setting whilst compressing or something? or do I have to fix it in the editor again?

Thanks in advance for help...

[Willen]

I know this doesn't really belong here but I had a video question too...my vid is a teeny tiny bit darker than in my editor, normally wouldn't matter but it's Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust so it's already pretty dark...is that just how it is? or is there something I can do? Some setting whilst compressing or something? or do I have to fix it in the editor again?

I'm not sure about the audio issue, but I can give you an idea of why your exported video seems darker. You'll have to check the colorspaces of all your clips and exports to make sure, but it does seem like this is the result of colorspace conversions (e.g. going from YV12 to RGB then back to YV12).

[delirium_sj]

Thanks for replying.
How do I check that? the colorspaces I mean? I didn't rip my source myself so I don't know what all the settings and stuff are. I'm messin' with stuff now seeing what I can figure out on my own...but I just got home and I need a smoke to get my brain going. Thanks again for helping me out.

[delirium_sj]

I DID IT! For some reason there was a problem w/ my mp3. I tried w/ the wav and it worked fine but the file became over 70mb. Sooo...after making and remaking the mp3 at 320kbps w/ no changes to my problem I made one at 192kbps and everything works perfectly! Wee!!! Don't know why it wouldn't work at 320 but ah well, sounds the same and everything's working so I'm not really caring about the whys now.

Oh and I fixed my little "lighting" problem. Ended up just using the brightness adjusting filter in VirtualDubMod and doing the full processing mode instead of the fast recompress. Worked beautifully!

[gangstaj8]

I DID IT! For some reason there was a problem w/ my mp3. I tried w/ the wav and it worked fine but the file became over 70mb. Sooo...after making and remaking the mp3 at 320kbps w/ no changes to my problem I made one at 192kbps and everything works perfectly! Wee!!! Don't know why it wouldn't work at 320 but ah well, sounds the same and everything's working so I'm not really caring about the whys now.

That is weird. Maybe VDM, being a video processing program, doesn't handle that high of bitrate with mp3's very well? But I don't bother encoding my MP3's above 192, so I wouldn't know. I was going to suggest importing your .WAV directily into VDM and letting it compress it, cuase that always works well for me.