Has anyone actually managed to buy TMPGEnc?

[acanthis]

I see that the facility to purchase a license for TMPGEnc is now available at the pegasys web site, but when I tried it I was left wondering if the transaction had been completed or not. I clicked on Submit but was taken to a plain white, unformatted page with the message: "Please enter telephone number in HALF size numbers only" --- Excuse me?

As I had entered a legal international telephone number consisting only of the digits 0 to 9, I was at a loss to understand what the message meant. I was also not prepared to mess around re-submitting the order without any clear indication of the status of the original transaction.

A pretty bad experience, then - and certainly the worst I have ever had in two years of purchasing on line. Has anyone successfully completed a transaction there? If so, can someone tell me what half size telephone numbers are?

[whodges]

My purchase went without any incedent. I put my US phone # in by 7035551212. With no spaces or dashes. Total 10 chars long. At the bottom of the page it said it could take up to 1 week to get my serial. However I recevied the email in less than 5 mins.

[Mirror_Image]

That sounds like a bad situation! I've considered purchasing that as well (still using beta 12a) but your story doesn't encourage me.


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[smokingweed3000]

Is it worth the money to purchase TMPG Enc or should I just download it?

[SiCN]

Well, the feature list of TMPGenc Plus doesn't really encourage me purchasing it. The TMPGEnc Standard version works just as well. Nevertheless, once TMPGenc Server is out I will definitely take it into consideration.

[sommersby]

After using the retail version for a couple days I can say that all bugs seem to gone, the 2 pass vbr encoding is now better and faster than cce, and the mpeg 2 codec's do not expire after 30 days, I have heard reports of it being faster, for svcd that is true, but for vcd it is not noticably different.

[jakecb]

It took a couple of tries but i finally it got it. ignore the phone zero
and try again.

[acanthis]

Hmmmn. Against my better judgement, I tried this again, just using my national telephone number (no country code) and it worked. In fact, the registration code was mailed after just a couple of minutes.

I'd be interested to hear from VISA International when it became acceptable for a merchant to accept a "Customer Not Present" card transaction without first verifying the cardholder's full postal address

All that aside, $48 is a small price to pay to get rid of the time limited MPEG-2 encoding.

[rbruner2]

Can someone who has purchases the Plus version actually run a comparison for time-to-encode? My biggest complaint about tmpgenc currently is that it takes forever and a day to encode anything. I'd be curious to know exactly how much speed improvement over the free version there is.

I'm holding off buying it until Pinnacle releases the next update to Studio 7. If the MPEG-2 quality is satisfactory, I won't buy tmpgenc. But, if it is still as bad as it is currently, I'll buy Tmpgenc Plus. Studio's MPEG encoder, however, is orders of magnitude faster than Tmpgenc's.