Need help in making a stereo mpeg stereo

[Anonymous]

I have a mpeg2 recording from a DTT device that is flagged as stereo 2.0 but sounds more like mono on playback.

Is there any tool that i can use to make this have a wider stereo sound so making the mpeg sound defined in the left and right channels as stereo should be.

I can convert the demuxed mpeg2 file into many formats, but cannot find a tool to do the job, of making it sound like a stereo sound file should do.

Any Ideas ?

[bitter_old_man]

If you have the full version of Nero, Nero Wave Editor can do this. Audacity, a free audio editor, has a plug-in that will widen stereo. Audacity is here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows and the plug-in is here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/nyquistplugins (scroll down to "Stereo Widener").

Barry

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much Bitter_Old_Man Audacity what a nice tool. It has as you say plugins, and seems can be used with some other types of plugins. Just what i've been looking for way to go Audacity. :)

Have downloaded the essential ingrediants, will have have a play with it today.

Prefer not to use Nero if can be helped as is the cause of many misery, including damaging cd and dvd drives. Not to mention its badly written codecs that it installs. :!:

[bitter_old_man]

I've had very few problems with Nero. I seldom use any of its codecs. As far as it damaging a drive, I've never heard of that happening.

Barry

[Anonymous]

I have installed the above Audacity and the widener plugin - does nothing for the wave file. Looks as if it is just a plain old mono file that is flagged as stereo.

So now i'm on the look out for a way to make a simulated stereo file from a mono wave file. Any ideas what software can do this with keeping also good audio quality.

[bitter_old_man]

I've never tried to create fake stereo, but what they used to do in the analog days was add some reverb or delay to one channel. It was pretty bad.

Barry

[Anonymous]

It was pretty bad.

I can imagine how bad that would be not the choice i would make, as the audio would be spoilt by doing that.

Come to think of it i do remember years back noticing this, on the same episodes when first broadcast. So it is the original recording that is bad, which i have no control over as DVB is just raw streams that we record.

Will go searching around the VST plugin sites, to find a solution that I can use in Audacity.