Fastest but good quality mpeg-2 encoder

[cd090580]

Hello,

What''s the fastest but good quality mpeg-2 encoder to convert a divx file to dvd (from an avisynth script which only resize and add overscan) ?

TmpegEnc 2.5 is slow ?
Quenc ?
HC ?
MainConcept Mpeg encoder ?

Thanks

[redwudz]

Or CCE or Procoder. They are likely all faster than TMPGEnc. I would try HC first as it's freeware and works easily with AVIsynth.

[lordsmurf]

"fastest but good quality" does not exist.

All of the above encoders will work, but encoding video takes time. And you have to use the correct settings.

[cd090580]

I've tried Hc but it won't work

[jimbucc]

I have had great luck and excellent results with CCE- Basic. I could use the free encoders but I choose not to skimp on this one area. I've been getting excellent images down to 3500 bps using VBR 2-pass.
Great encoder - highly recommended.

JB

[EddyH]

I'm not even entirely sure why you'd be using AVISynth with the majority of these anyway. That kind of resizing/overscan compensation function is, at least, native to TMPG and HC...

TM can be set to go fairly quick, with only a minor (though noticable) reduction in quality - still pretty good though (its strength is in giving incredibly efficient compression when allowed to sit and stew a while over each frame). And I was impressed by HC's speed and output quality from a rather tricky source the couple times I've used it so far. Mind you it's hard to compare as the last time I did MPG encoding, it was on an entirely different PC

Generally higher speed tends to mean lower motion search precision unless the programmer has managed to make an impressive leap in encoder routine cpu cycle efficiency... lower motion search precision means less accurate interframe prediction and so larger and/or more heavily compressed P & B frames, leading to lower quality... just one of those things you may have to accept, like my having to use low complexity/high rate MPG4 to capture to HD on this machine because Huff takes up too much space and requires too high a data rate, but higher complexity/lower rate MP4 encoding maxes out the CPU and leads to dropped frames.

[45tripp]

Might try reading this:
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=274145&SiteID=1&PageID=0

HC requires avisynth input.
HC does no filtering.

gl

[thymej]

FFMPEG

[cd090580]

Might try reading this:
https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=274145&SiteID=1&PageID=0

HC requires avisynth input.
HC does no filtering.

gl

Disabling JIT Debugging is helpless, still crashing with the classic windows error report.

[Alex_ander]

TmpegEnc 2.5 is slow ?

Like an ancient turtle (XPress version is 2-3 times faster). CCE is the champion.

[spanky123]

CCE for me but I haven't tried any of the others for a while now and they may be a lot better.

There doesn't seem to be any comparisons of mpeg-2 encoders anywhere for some time now despite many new versions and encoders being released and allegedly improved. Have I missed something ?

[lordsmurf]

The "new versions" don't really change all that much. MPEG encoding quality hasn't really improved in several years now. We've seen a few speed tweaks, and some more CPU support, but that's about it.

[cd090580]

HC always crash and impossible to register at officiel website