Trouble with Flash Video Encoder

[vinyard]

I've been trying to convert the videos I have from avi to flash. The video looks fine but there is either no audio or the audio sounds horrible to the point that it just sounds like noise. I haven't done anything special I just put the settings to flash 8 - low quality (150kbps video, 32kbps MP3 mono audio). I've tried this 3 times on two different videos. I would have tried it on more but it takes me about 3-4 hours each time. Any help on this would be appreciated.

[GARK]

Well, I don't normally convert video to flash, however, it seems your problem is that you are encoding at the lowest possible levels. You should encode from the highest quality and work your way down to a reasonable quality- " a middle-ground". Low quality conversion is used for dial-up modems and mono audio is just crappy.
When you are working with streaming video it is assumed that your clients have at least a high broadband internet connection, and so you should try to stream for that quality.
So, encode at higher settings, especially the audio, but not stereo. I don't know if it's still true today, but you can't stream stereo sound over the internet, so don't bother.

High quality video/Stereo Sound: This is for hard drive, DVD, CD-ROMs
Middle quality video/High Mono: This is for streaming for broadband
Low Quality video/Low Mono: For dial-up modems [don't bother]

For your project, I'd encode for broadband 700kbps, and CD-Quality sound or close to it