Nero's new Mpeg2 encoder

[ziggygt]

The MPEG2 encoder is now available. Easy download and resonably priced.

Seems like the performance is a little slow. I have not had a chance to benchmark the encoder yet. I usually use the encoder in video factory, but I'll try with others as well.

Bad experience so far. I encoded several files, I did not have a disk in the drive so It re-encoded the entire mess.
STill encoding but I've had it. I'll look at it in the morning.

[bjarne]

Hello Ziggygt.
May bee You can healp me, I have the same MPEG2 encoder and I think it runs rather fair, a little bit slow, YES,but I am only able to get 4 min SVCD out of 13 min long avi videofile. I have asked Ahead but I have not got any answer.
Best regards
Bjarne
b.skoett@mail.tele.dk
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On 2001-09-27 22:20:33, ziggygt wrote:
The MPEG2 encoder is now available. Easy download and resonably priced.

Seems like the performance is a little slow. I have not had a chance to benchmark the encoder yet. I usually use the encoder in video factory, but I'll try with others as well.

Bad experience so far. I encoded several files, I did not have a disk in the drive so It re-encoded the entire mess.
STill encoding but I've had it. I'll look at it in the morning.

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[Jeomite]

You should use TMPGEnc. It IS faster, and it definitely outputs a better quality MPEG-2 video. It's FREEWARE too!
VCDHelp.com did a MPEG-2 Encoder Comparision (including the new Nero MPEG-2 Encoder Plugin) lately.. check out the results here..

http://www.vcdhelp.com/comparison.htm#mpeg2

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[R_A_P_D_]

Well the quality is good but nero's svcd encoder is definately not svcd compliant.... philips verifier utility version 2.00 reports 6000 errors including thousands of oddities after anaylzing a 24 minute video clip encoded with nero.

Plus it not very "tweakable" and with no documentation (as usual with ahead software) you have to figure it out for yourself... for instance how do you lower the audio bitrate? the only thing you can change is "bitrate" and its not even in kbps its in k.... like 300 k/sec...

why can't they just give some documentation and some easy settable options....

however, for 16 dollars... its definately worth it if you cannot aford any of the other encoders... otherwise go for ligos 3.5 or tmpgenc...

Also as a bonus virtualdub 1.47 frameserving works with the plugin so ... cool!

RD

[Jeomite]

TMPGEnc is freeware. EVERYONE can afford it. =)
Plus it's one of the best MPEG-2 Encoders out there (right below the better quality and fastest encoder, CCE =)