New versions of TMPGEnc Plus & TMPGEnc AC-3 sound pl

[DRP]

It hasn't made it to the new software section yet, so I just thought I'd draw attention to the fact that there's finally an update to everyone's favourite MPEG encoder... yes TMPGEnc Plus has been updated with a new version released. Check out the Pegasus site and you'll find there's a new version out for the TMPGEnc AC-3 sound plug-in as well. Now up to v1.30.

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[FulciLives]

What is the latest version for TMPGEnc DVD Author ?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[DRP]

v1.6 which is exactly the same as v1.5 except that it now supports DL discs (DVD+R9)

[SatStorm]

Let's now see: Did he fix the PAL issues?

[DRP]

Let's now see: Did he fix the PAL issues?

What "PAL issues" are you referring to? I convert everything to PAL wherever humanly possible when using TMPGEnc Plus and have never had an "issue" with doing it most effectively. Or are you talking about TDA?

[SatStorm]

No... TMPGenc does a great job, but does a better job with NTSC than PAL.
Old issues, not noticable to most users. You know: Macroblocks on fade in/outs, blocks on static backgrounds without an obvious reason...
I have to run few tests to see the bugfixes

[DRP]

No... TMPGenc does a great job, but does a better job with NTSC than PAL.
Old issues, not noticable to most users. You know: Macroblocks on fade in/outs, blocks on static backgrounds without an obvious reason...
I have to run few tests to see the bugfixes

I do recognise those things you describe as being a "normal" part of a TMPGEnc encode yes. I am very familiar with those things, but to be honest since 95% of all my encodes are from downloaded AVI source I just assumed those artifacts were from the AVI encoding and could not be justifiably blamed on TMPGEnc, afterall you can't expect an encoder to fix a problem created by an earlier encoder.

I have never seen those artifacts when I've re-encoded a full D1 MPEG taken from DVD, which is why I have always tended to blame the AVI encoder rather than TMPGEnc itself. Even when converting a full 29.97fps (stored as genuine 29.97 rather than 23.976 pulldown) interlaced DVD to progressive PAL with the IVTC and field matching done by AVISynth did I notice any particular "issues" with the TMPGEnc encode.