Audio dropout after TMPGEnc encode

[Studio Hooghly]

I followed ErMaC's instructions almost to the letter when encoding my newest video, although I skipped the whole inverse telecine step because Otakon, my home con, prefers submissions in 29.97 fps. When everything was said, done and rendered, I ended up with the audio cutting out for a split second towards the end of the video. Does anyone know why this happened, and more importantly, how I can make it stop? Admittedly, I used an MP3 for the audio source. Would a WAV directly off the CD improve matters?

Also-- and I may be hallucinating here-- but it sounds to me like the whole thing runs a fraction faster than it did originally, as if the song and entire video were sped up by a tiny amount. The time display on Windows Media Player does not back me up on this, however. Can anyone explain this?

Help is much appreciated.

Studio Hooghly

[Tsukin]

TMPGEnc does not always work too well with mp3s, it is alot better to use wav files cause it causes no problems at all when compressing.

[Studio Hooghly]

Yeah, that was how I ultimately fixed it. The WAV sounds better, too. Thanks, belatedly.