TMPGEnc vs WinAVI

[PharmBoy]

I have been playing around with programs this evening and am wondering if I am missing something. I use WinAVI and it seems to me to create a very good video in about a third of the time than TMPGEnc does. What am I missing? Why does everyone still use TMPG? Obviously there are more changes that you can make with TMPG but for basic video is there a differnce in quality either audio or sound? I seem to frequently get video without sound with TMPG and then have to rip a wav file but never get this with WinAVI. If I am going to do something I want to make sure I learn to do it the right way but so far it seems that WinAVI does as good a job with a select, convert simplistic interface. Am I messing this whole thing up?

Thanks

[Soopafresh]

Not at all. I've used TMPGenc for a couple of years now, but since I've discovered VSO DivxToDVD I've been taking the easy way out. Plus, it's significantly faster than encoding, then muxing.

Still, TMPGenc is the reliable workhorse of Mpeg encoders. Not fast, but tons of control over your final output.


Why not use both ? YAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sanjayk]

I have been using both the tools. Certainly TMPGEnc is for advance user because it gives lot of option to play around. BUt one must be careful.

Secondly many times WinAVI will mininterpret the aspect ratio of the input video and your output will be squeezed vertically. This will not happen in TMPGEnc if you choose the correct options. Plus TMPGEnc provide "motion search precision" option which effects the quality of the final output. There is no such option in WinAVI. What it is doing internally we dont know.

TMPGEnc is definately for serious users.