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[boldy]

hi peeps again still looking into conversion software and i'm now looking at this software can people share with me and others there points about this progy, good points and bad points, thank you.

[reboot]

Good: You can't muck up any settings.
Bad: You can't muck up any settings, there are none.

[zappafan]

Good point is that this software can convert MANY different input formats (MPEG, AVI, etc.) that D.I.K.O. and The Film Machine can't handle. Also I am not sure if the other softwares can do this but this software lets you specify to force the conversion to NTSC or PAL.

[Jeremiah58]

Good things:
- converts AVI, DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital, MPEG...into DVD with chapters.
- very fast,
- very good quality video,
- if you demux the output DVD with VOBedit, you could directly import .m2v and .ac3 for DVD reauthoring,
- batch encoding (add several video files at once, and you'll get 1 DVD with several VOB's)
- perfect for unexperienced user
- freeware

Bad things:
depends who you are asking - for me, I do not want to find any.
No settings? Maybe I do not need 'em, for the purpose!

[guns1inger]

It's quality isn't bad at low bitrates, although it can be a bit soft.

The biggest problem it has is that while it accurately calculates the correct target bitrate when it starts, it often doesn't come anywhere near it during the encode. I have had files caluclate out to 5700, but encode to 1700. There is a substantial difference here. It was consistent and able to hit it's calculated atrgets more often, I would be happier to use it. At present I still frameserve to CCE instead.

[Soopafresh]

Good: Blazingly Fast, Amazingly simple to use.

Bad: Won't let you use frame served AVS or dummy AVI files as input. If it would do that, I wouldn't use anything else.

[celtic_druid]

Well as far as I know it uses libavcodec and libavformat for at least input (not sure about encoding) so it only supports as input what they support as input. Fortunatly ffmpeg does support most stuff for input, although I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for windows only stuff like avs support.

[Abond]

Bad thing - if you have 23.976 source it will convert it to hardcoded 29.97 (no pulldown!) jerky motion.
Look like it is based on gui4ffmpeg (though the last one is more difficult to use, but has good help file and do not have probs with 23.976 streams I think).
Good thing - DVD is directly authored.

@celtic_druid QuEnc and FreeEnc are libavcodec based with avs support (though I think you know that already)

[mats.hogberg]

Bad. But that's my view of all conversions that doesn't involve at least 4 different applications.

/Mats

[celtic_druid]

QuEnc handles the avs decoding itself and pipes it. Not sure about freeenc, but I guess it does the same.

mplayer/mencoder does have limited avs support though.

[Abond]

It is not limited, they haven't any. One can pipe avs through makeAVIS ffvfw though.

[celtic_druid]

Oh yes they do. Handles video only, has issues if the input is i420 and not YV12, plus I think duplicates the last frame. But the support is there and has been since Feb with a patch available in Jan.

Also for piping I would suggest avs2yuv.

[Abond]

Oh, thanks, I didn't know this. In fact I stopped using mencoder when QuEnc became stable application. After that tried and used FreeEnc and simply lost the mencoder from the sight.
This was last year.