Program Similar To TMPGEnc

[enuff1]

Would anyone know, or recommend a program, that is similar to "TMPGEnc, that does the same functions, As "TMPGEnc", but does it, in less time? I am using "TMPGEnc" Plus, My PC has 500MHZ, 13HD. Thanks in Advance...

[freak_in_cage_10k]

i would reccomend MainConcept or cinema Craft Encoder Basic. links to their sites are avaliable on the tools section of this site. i am pretty sure both are avaliable in free trials. CCE basic is very cheap though so u may as well buy it!!!!

[SaSi]

There is nothing similar to Tmpgenc, however you can achieve the same functionality with a combination of programs.

Tmpgenc does MPEG encoding as well as manipulating the frame size (resize, center, etc) as well as filtering.

You are right, it is too damn slow. And if you use it's filters, it get's even slower.

There are two sets of programs you can select from.

For filtering, resizing and the rest, I suggest VitualDUB or AviSynth. VirtualDUB is fine, powerful and easy to use. Avisynth is more powerful, supposedly a bit faster and very difficult to use.

For encoding you can use either CCE Basic edition ($58 ) or MainConcept MPEG Encoder ($158 ). CCE has a strong reputation and the CCE Basic is very new and quite powerful. MainConcept is new to standalone encoders and marketing them but have built a powerful and fast encoder. I prefer the Mainconcept one as it has the same functionality (except for 2 pass VBR which I wouldn't use because it takes twice as long ) and has better handling of input streams. However, one would be safe buying the best (CCE BE) for less

As far as speed is concerned, I have done some benchmarks between Tmpgenc and MainConcept. MCE is almost 10 times as fast or 5 times as fast, depending on how high quality encoding you set Tmpgenc to do. CCE is supposed to be a bit faster than MCE.

You can try both encoders (CCE has a trial that does 3 minute clips, MCE trial is full in term of encoding but only adds a small watermark on the top left corner of the movie).

Hope the above help you find an alternative.

[Gnerma]

hi SaSi, thanks for all the info about other encoding apps. I've been using TMPGenc exclusively for my AVI to SVCD encoding up to this point. I do like its ease of use and funtionality but turning on a lot of filters (as I do) can really increase encoding time.

Are the apps you mention above multithreaded? I encode my video on a dual XP system so multithreading is a big plus. Also do you see any loss in quality with these other programs? Perhaps TMPGenc is doing a lot more 'filtering' with its filters and that is why it takes so long. Your thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.

[harrymj3]

I have been using WinFast TV 2000XP to capture in huffy codec 720x480, pcm audio, and Tmpgenc to encode and nero to burn to DVD. I just did a test using the same huffy file. I did a dvd test and then run the same huffy file thru NeroVission Express witch burned it to VCD in about 1/3 the time. The quality isn't much different between the DVD and the VCD. I haven't tried the SVCD in NVE because I only have the free add on. That methoed has given me the first watchable vcd that I have made from an avi capture. Take it for what it's worth. ......... harrymj3

[SaSi]

I don't know about CCE, however Mainconcept may be able to use more than one CPU. All you have to do is try the demo version.

When MCE starts encoding it starts bringing messages (copied below)

MMX:y SSE:y SSE2:y 28:1 3DNowExt:n 3DNow:n CMOV:y
Initializing video encoder
Number of CPU: 1, available: 1
SIMD: SSE2
Video encoder initialized

As you see, it checks for CPU's so I'd guess it may well use the second one. Can you please try and let us know? I might consider things differently for my next upgrade...