panasonic mpeg1 encoder

[LUMPYA1A]

i have been trying to buy this software from their site and it wont let me,it says my aol address is invalid,is there anywhere else to get this?

[Sefy]

Why don't you wait for January ? then they will have the new version which will also include MPEG2.

[pinoy2201]

i cant wait till the VErsion of Panasonic comes out i hope it is a bit faster

[Sefy]

just a bit ?
takes around 7 to 8 hours with the first encoder
I hope they are gonna do atleast 50% boost in performance

[Stinky]

SWEEEET! A new Panasonic encoder!!

Baldrick do you have any info on it - are they going to add some much needed features (such as 'resize') ??

If they need some beta testers let me know - I'm a big fan of the current encoder (via a frameserve from VirtualDub)

[pinoy2201]

i just cant wait

[Sefy]

Next month we'll all know the new details

[LUMPYA1A]

so where can i get the mpeg1 software right now?

[Poplar]

Every one says Panasonic Mpeg Encoder is the best when it comes to quality. So I tested it, but didn't find noticeable quality improvement. Any suggestion for settings to encode better?

[Stinky]

Lumpya1a: when you see people talk about software like Panasonic or CCE it was either purchased or *found* on usenet. Please don't ask me for more details - the rest is for you to figure out.

My suggestion to get on USENet is http://www.giganews.com or http://www.usenetserver.com

[Stinky]

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On 2001-12-08 12:00:15, Poplar wrote:
Every one says Panasonic Mpeg Encoder is the best when it comes to quality. So I tested it, but didn't find noticeable quality improvement. Any suggestion for settings to encode better?
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ok the skinny is this: it's a bit quicker than TMPGEnc - it does good solid VCD standard MPEG's with very little (if any) block noise. Thats why people like it.

There are very few settings to change - and you can't resize but the noise reduction works v. well.

It's not that it's MUCH better than anything else - it's just easier and a bit quicker than other choices.

[Sefy]

Stinky, just a minor correction, it is defenetly not faster! what takes me 3 hours in TMPGEnc, takes around 7 hours to 9 in Panasonic, but it's quality is much more impressive, you rarely get any visible blocks, even in high motion scenes.

[Dhruv]

So which one has better quality overall? TMPGEnc or Panasonic?

[Sefy]

Quality ? Panasonic, i'd prefer it any day.
Quality+Performance ? TMPGEnc without a doubt.

I think with latest TMPGEnc versions, the quality part is a very thin line, it is barely noticable, althought at times, in TMPGEnc there are more blocks then Panasonic, and I think the Colors in the Panasonic are more vivid then TMPGEnc, and more bright.

[Stinky]

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On 2001-12-08 22:53:11, Sefy wrote:
Stinky, just a minor correction, it is defenetly not faster! what takes me 3 hours in TMPGEnc, takes around 7 hours to 9 in Panasonic, but it's quality is much more impressive, you rarely get any visible blocks, even in high motion scenes.
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Sefy?? really - for me an 2 hour conversion in Panasonic takes 3 or more in TMPGEnc - on my system it runs faster - though I should add if I'm doing a high-end DivX conversions in TMPGEnc I have it on HIGH or HIGHEST so maybe thats the catch.... but I have to do that to make the block quality equal to Panasonic. Go figure

[biffos]

Glad you lot have got to test it,I D\L the demo and all you get is a 30 second encode barely enough time to get by the credits and when used on a clip with no credits barely enough time to judge quality or speed! best part is it's a months trile of 30 sec encodes what a joke.
Does anybody know if it's compatable with Nero?

[Stinky]

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On 2001-12-09 05:17:37, biffos wrote:
Does anybody know if it's compatable with Nero?
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100% --- It makes standard VCD's - PAL or NTSC

[rizo]

hi everybody
I use Panasonic Encoder & Nero 5.0 all the time.
No problem at all.

[Dhruv]

Is there an encoding time difference between using the Panasonic MPEG-1 Encoder through FlaskMPEG and using the Standalone Panasonic MPEG-1 Encoder?
Also, what's faster to make a (X)VCD. TMPGEnc or Panasonic?
Thanks,

[Sefy]

No, I think they are both just as slow, although it's possible the Standalone is faster, cause I mostly used the Plugin with Flask or DVD2MPG.

If you are going to do Non-Standard, then you better use TMPGEnc, Panasonic doesn't handle that very well.

Personally I would not bother with the panasonic encoder, I think its a pile of sh*t. The quality when converting from DV to mpeg1 is so bad(blocks everywhere & problems with sound sync). I would recomend Tmpgenc as its the best by a long long way in my oponion

[sommersby]

And as far as speed, if you have a pent 4 or amd xp series cpu tmpenc is faster than panasonic.

[sommersby]

actually came home and did a test with panasonic since I haven't used it since upgrading my cpu, with pearl harbor disk to as the test rip Tmpenc took 54 minutes to encode on high setting, panasonic estimated 3 hours about 10 minutes into the encode on high setting, I stopped the test. Maybe the new Panasonic will take advantage of SSE, I still use panasonic for troublsome divx files as it seems to be more tolerant when tmpenc fails.

[Stinky]

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On 2001-12-10 05:22:29, Sefy wrote:
No, I think they are both just as slow, although it's possible the Standalone is faster, cause I mostly used the Plugin with Flask or DVD2MPG.
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Maybe thats why you and I disagree on the speed of Panasonic vs. TMPGEnc - I only use the Standalone while you use the Plugin.

I also agree with you that for non-standard VCD's you shouldn't use Panasonic - I've tried some xVCD setup's in Panasonic and had trouble burning them.

[sommersby]

this test was with the stand alone version, and it was the pearl harbor disk 2, kinda hard to read that in my last post, a 47 min segment.

[Sefy]

Stinky, so you saying the Standalone is faster ? well, atleast that's a good thing, the Plugin was pretty slow no matter what CPU you use.