panasonic encoder or tmpgenc which one has better quality an

[zdog]

has anybody tested which on has better quality in encoding avi to vcd.

[Yeshi]

there is a comparison done somewhere on the VCDhelp page. heres it basically

Panasonic

Colour - Average
Sharpness - Average
Blockiness - Good

TMPGEnc

Colour - Good
Sharpness - Good
Blockiness - Average

[deltaboy]

panasonic (PWI) all the way!!! i do agree with yeshi on the color aspect tho, PWI bleeds a lot. if you hate blocks, go panasonic. never seen anything that compares.

[Stinky]

Pansonic
+never errors out on bad DivX files
-very inflexible (just try to resize!)

TMPGEnc
+very flexible
-errors out on bad audio or video

[vitualis]

Overall, video quality for Panasonic vs. TMPGEnc for VCD standard MPEG-1 is about the same. Panasonic does some things better, TMPGEnc does other things better. My eyes prefer Panasonic encoded MPEG over TMPGEnc overall, so that's what I use for standard VCDs. The quality difference between Panasonic and TMPGEnc is mostly subjective so it will depend on you.

TMPGEnc probably has better performance.

Regards.

[RedHat]

Now only if panasonic released an MPEG2 encoder.

[Yeshi]

exactly. we need a panasonic mpeg2 encoder!

[linardi]

I would like to know why all of you are still discussing about panasonic. As far as I know, Panasonic is a dead product. No update since more than one year.
What release you are discussing? stand alone or adobe plugin?
Can it work with Adobe 6.0?
I've tried it 6 mths ago, and the result is very bad, TMPG is perfect. And if you burned it with Nero, I heard that Panasonic will not suitable.

[vitualis]

It should be obvious why people are still using Panasonic -- because to some eyes, it is the highest quality MPEG-1 encoder at VCD bitrates available (i.e., better than TMPGEnc).

The plug-in and stand-alone versions offer the same quality.

The plug-in version works with Adobe Premiere 5.x and up ("plug-in" as in Adobe Premiere plug-in).

The newest release is 2.51.

If your results were bad, you stuffed something up.

Panasonic encoded streams work fine with Nero.

Regards.