TMPGEnc? Or Nero?

[Welly]

Hello all,

Should I want to create a VCD, I could easily use Nero to drag and drop an MPEG file which I've captured from my DC10+ and burn it pretty much straight away. What does TMPGEnc offer me over using Nero? I realise that if I do use TMPGEnc, I must then use Nero or another CDR application to burn the CD but what does TMPGEnc offer before the burning process that Nero doesn't do?

Sorry about the silly questions but am new to all this!

Thanks!

Welly

[DVWannaB]

Well the 2 are like apples and oranges.

Nero should be used strictly for burning CD-R/RW or DVD. DO NOT use it to encode to MPEG, you will not like results.

That is where TMPG comes in. TMPG can not burn a disk. But it does just about everything else (or it just seems that way ). TMPG can be used to convert AVI/MPEG-1/D2V files to MPEG 1 & 2. It can cut and join MPEG files. It can split audio and video streams (De-multiplex) from MPEG files, as well as put them together (Multiplex).

Hope that helps.

[miketree]

They are both a good source of vitamin C

(Sorry!) <g>

[Welly]

Well the 2 are like apples and oranges.

Nero should be used strictly for burning CD-R/RW or DVD. DO NOT use it to encode to MPEG, you will not like results.

That is where TMPG comes in. TMPG can not burn a disk. But it does just about everything else (or it just seems that way ). TMPG can be used to convert AVI/MPEG-1/D2V files to MPEG 1 & 2. It can cut and join MPEG files. It can split audio and video streams (De-multiplex) from MPEG files, as well as put them together (Multiplex).

Hope that helps.

Yeah, helped a lot! Although still a little confused. I've captured my video in Pinnacle Studio 7, and then done the editing and output the video as an MPEG2 file, what would be the next step? Or would TMPG be used for more specialised applications? I could just as well burn a VCD in Pinnacle Studio 7 but am wondering if TMPG would give any advantages - ie. quality of image.

Should I go down the TMPG route - however it might be done - I presume I burn a VCD in Nero using the usual method of creating a VCD project - dragging and dropping the MPEG file and then pressing burn?

Thanks!

Welly

[Craig Tucker]

TMPGEnc is first and foremost an MPEG encoder, and one of the best available. If you had an AVI file that you wanted to encode to mpeg, or a non compliant mpeg file that you wanted to make compliant for either VCD, SVCD or DVD then TMPGEnc would be the software to use. However if you are capturing directly to VCD compliant mpeg, then there is no reason for you to use it.

However, the best possible quality mpegs are obtained by capturing to AVI then encoding (with a good encoder such as TMPGEnc) rather than capturing straight to mpeg.

[yg1968]

TMPGEnc does a better job of encoding to mpeg than Studio7. So you are better off exporting with Studio7 to whatever you are capturing in (avi with the same codec) and then converting to mpeg with TMPGEnc. Perhaps you can try both and see what you like best. The difference might not be worth the extra effort. You'll have to be the judge of this.

[comet_104]

You can also use a program called VCDEASY to burn your converted vcd or svcd file to cd.

[mats.hogberg]

What seems to cause a lot of confusion is that (S)VCD is mentioned as a file format. This is (as I'm sure everyone knows if you think about it) not the case. To create an (S)VCD you require an MPEG file of a specific format, which is then slightly converted and written to a CD, together with some other files and folders according to specified structure.
A VCD is related to the MPEG as a book is to a MS Word file.

/Mats