conversion from AVI to MPEG...

[Sean]

Hello!
I have been fiddeling with the TMPGE program for a long time now and am still curious about a couple things..maybe someone can help.. Where do i get the new templates for the TMPGE and what folder does it go into? MY wanted ability is to take .vob files and encode to MPEG1.
ALSO..if I am encoding a video file from avi to mpeg1 which is better to do..
1. encode both audio/video together.. 1 hour of footage takes my amdk62, 356 megram about 5 hours to process
2. split the avi using virtual dub and encode audio seperate, video seperate.then encode them together .

what are my other choices..? I have not had much luck with any other programs..and please only suggest one if you are willing to provide a hyperlink and way to use program without spending $. I really love doing this but it is the most time consuming hobby ever!
thanks
Sean

[joe-mamma]

You can download sefy's templates from the tools section and then place them in the folder with all of the other .mcf files they will be in a templates felder in the location where you run the program from. I don't know anything about the .vob files but as far as your encoding both or seperately I don't know which works better, I do know however that you can specify an external mp2 encoder for the audio and it's supposed to be better than tmpgenc's encoding. I guess the external encoder to use is called toolame and I beleive it's available in the tools section, if not just do a search at http://www.dogpile.com .One thing though is that when toolame is encoding the audio it creates a temporary wave file that ends up being huge (like if the vcd is 65 mins the temp file will be around 650Mb) so if you have a small HD be weary of this.