YMPEG... *sigh*

[fmctm1sw]

I couldn't get this to work. I tried it with vdub and virtualvcr. I'm not at home right now so I can't recall the exact error but it said something about an access violation.... Anyone using this?

[FulciLives]

I couldn't get this to work. I tried it with vdub and virtualvcr. I'm not at home right now so I can't recall the exact error but it said something about an access violation.... Anyone using this?

What are you talking about ?!?!?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[SatStorm]

I manage to make it work with virtual vcr and capture realtime to mpeg 2.
Crappy quality if you don't rise a lot the bitrate, but it is an alpha status. It is really very promising (and freeware) solution.

Nothing beats mainconcept 1.4.1 realtime capture at this time IMHO.

[fmctm1sw]

I couldn't get this to work. I tried it with vdub and virtualvcr. I'm not at home right now so I can't recall the exact error but it said something about an access violation.... Anyone using this?

What are you talking about ?!?!?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

This:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188636&highlight=ympeg

[fritzi93]

Yeah, it's alpha, not quite there yet, but promising. There are 60-odd postings at the YMPEG group on Yahoo, only Baldrick claimed to have gotten it to work, if my memory serves. New versions are coming out every other day it seems, so maybe soon.

A common problem is livelock in VDub, if you even get that far. A bad crash and VDub will no longer recognize YMPEG as a compressor. So reinstall YMPEG, right? No, reinstall ALL your codecs and VDub will see it again.

Closest I got was after resizing a 2 min. AVI clip to 352x240, then configuring YMPEG for DVD at low CBR, saving elementary streams. These were clip.au and clip.vid, which I renamed to clip.mp2 and clip.m2v. The mp2 was valid and played, but the video was corrupted. Authored it anyway and no good, of course.

There's a 6.13 version up already, but the download site must be damn busy.

[SatStorm]

I manage to make it work on virtualvcr, not virtualdub.
I captured 352 x 576. The audio was okey, the picture was terrible. When I rise the bitrate to about 4000 I make it viewable, but far inferior other realtime encoders.

It is more than promising if you ask me. I feel this codec, and if no legal problems appear soon, gonna be the answer for many users who wish for a freeware mpeg 2 realtime solution with any video in card!

[fritzi93]

Right, gunna try vers. 6.13 today. Agreed, this can be really useful when it's improved a little more.The author states this is intended to work with several apps, VDub among them. Most of those on the YMPEG discussion group site were trying it out with VDub. It's encouraging that you made it work in virtualvcr.

[fritzi93]

YESSS! version 6.13 works. Encoded with CBR 3 mbits, lowest quality (fastest), save temp files, VDub went into livelock for 4 cycles, then status window started showing data, although it was obviously wrong. Let it go through (not real time, more like 2x) and checked the clip.au and clip.vid. Sizes were right, so I renamed and authored them. (Ignore the dummy mpg file. ) The dvd plays. Quality seems okay for the source and settings. I'll try something now with better quality and use higher settings. Yusuf is very close to complete success! 8)

[fritzi93]

All right, tried it on a full AVI movie I ripped from DVD then compressed in VDub-MPEG2. (CladDVD>DVD2AVI>). Didn't resize from 720x480, compressed with XVid encoder defaults and LAME MP3, 128/48,000, even checked for errors. AVI views perfectly. Recompressed with YMPEG DVD defaults, the sole exception being to save temp files. (BTW, I suspect the data in the status window refers to the dummy file).

Picture quality is good, but jittery. Audio starts and remains out-of-synch. So I'd have to say that a lot of progress has been made, but it's not there yet, at least under the conditions described above. Funny, it worked on a downloaded movie trailer (?).

Waiting now for vers. 6.14 so I can have some more fun. One click progs don't much interest me (yawn).