Which TMPGEnc. Version is best??

[fitte]

Hi,

which version of TMPGEnc. is best (Speed/Quality)?
Heard lots of opinions, that 12a is the best, other guys said the newstest version is best in speed and quality.

So which versions do you guys use?
btw: i only make XVCD

regards
fitte

[Yeshi]

12a is too slow, 2.0 is much better

[Thom001]

I'm using version 12j. I've heard that Version 2.0 doesn't accept divx movies as easily? Is 2.0 really that much faster than 12j? Maybe I'll give 2.0 a try when my 30 days runs out..........but it makes me nervous to switch when I'm having such good luck with this "old" version.

[pinoy2201]

2.0 is soo much faster...i had 12f and coverted a 5 minute clip 12f took like 20 and 2.0 like 16 minutes..thats good saving 4 minutes of ur time.

[fitte]

O.K. Version 2.0 seems to be faster, but what about the quality? Any news about this?

[AnnihilatorTokyo]

I'm really disappointed in 2.0. tooLame only works occasionaly, batch encode never works, can't cut any movies converted in 2.0, nor 12J. Good old 12a can cut it.
I went back to 12J again, works a lot better for me.

As for quality, no change. The only major difference is that 2.0 has support for SSE instructions, therefor running faster.

[pinoy2201]

the best one is version 2.01 its out

[SatStorm]

The best overall version, is 12H
2.1 seems promising, but I thing VBR ain't working well...

CQ VBR on 2.1 created a less good mpeg 2 result than 12H.
But with VBR, 2.1 is much better....

Seems like 2.1 is good for standard SVCDs, while 12H is better for XSVCDs (lower resolution)
Any other reports?