Distorted sound after converting to mpg

[Colin Law]

On 1 March 2012 16:33, bat guano <batguano999 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  I am attempting to convert to mpg using ffmpeg, using
>> the command line
>> ffmpeg -i program.mp4 -target pal-dvd program.mpg
>> Unfortunately the audio produced is hiss, slightly modified by the
>> underlying audio track. The video is fine.
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> Is the audio of 'program.mpg' OK when you play it on your computer with VLC (or similar) player?

Yes it is fine,  it is just the conversion that goes wrong.
I also noticed that if I use tovid or DeVeDe to create a dvd I get the
same problem (hiss on audio).

Colin