MegaPEG or Panasonic? Which should I buy...

[HyperJoe]

I have tryed the tryme version of MegaPEG, and exported a VCD very nicely, but couldnt find any support for a SVCD, although it does have MPEG2. Can 'Megapeg' do SVCD? I am considering buying the licenced version to remove the watermark. But first I would like to know what you recomend. Is the Panasonic better? Can it do SVCD? Price is not problem, so give me the best option. Where can I purchase the Panasonic plugin for AP online?


Thanks,


-hyper

[Auric]

You'll want Ligos LSX-LE, it's got SVCD-support and the quality is the best there is. It encodes directly from the timeline and manages to be 5 - 10 times faster than TMPG.

It creates also DVD-compliant files that SpruceUp eats without trouble and the quality is, you guessed, superb.

[Braindrain]

Well, I've tried CCE and LSX. CCE is by far the FASTEST and it'll run you $2K (USD). However, in my experience of encoding, nothing touches TMPG for MPG2 encoding. (That is, beta 12a.) Yes, people have sent me their templates for CCE and LSX but I still couldn't get the same results as what TMPG would give me.

Best of all, TMPG is free!

[wildcatfan]

I use LSX Encoder 3.5. The difference I have found between it and Tmpgenc is at the same bitrates where Tmpgenc gets blocky, LSX doesn't get blocky but bands the colors (skies are a good example) I can deal with the color banding better than I can the blocks of Tmpgenc (not to mention some of the issues I have had when trying to edit the Tmpgenc created files, cutting, joining etc).

Michael