ProCoder test results

[Gargoyle]

I've heard a lot about ProCoder, so I decided to check it out . Downloaded the demo, and ran a quick test as follows:
System - P4 1.7GHz, 256 meg ram, Windows 2000 Pro
Source = final fight scene from "Blade", (lots of fast motion, high contrast shots)- about 6 minutes in length, 720x480 uncompressed AVI.
encoded as MPEG2, 2-pass VBR: 300 min, 1600 average, 2450 max
results:
ProCoder never finished! Started encoding at about 8 FPS, and gave an estimate of 45 Minutes to complete. Went to lunch, came back an hour later, and the progress bar was about 30%, and the encoding had dropped to about 1-2 FPS. I let it run another 1.5 hours, and it was less than 50% complete (still about 1-2 FPS). Attempted to abort, and it crashed- no output file.
-I realize that the ProCoder demo is limited to 5 min encoding time, I was just curious as to how long it would take to hit the limit - next test will be a clip less than 5 minutes.

CCE- took 19 min 34 sec. resulting file size = 74,550K
TMPGenc- took 1 hour 33 min 02 sec., resulting file size = 71,440K

Tried again with the trailer for "Matrix Reloaded" -converted to uncompressed AVI 480x224, encoded as MPEG2, 2-pass VBR: 300 min, 1400 average, 2450 max
Results:
ProCoder took 2 min 30 sec., resulting file size = 16,277K
CCE took 1 min 20 sec., resulting file size = 16,051K
TMPGenc took 5 min 35 sec., resulting file size = 16,053K
I ran the resulting files though Bitrate viewer to verify the parameters:
Num. of picture read: 2357
Stream type: MPEG-2 MP@ML VBR
Resolution: 480*224
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Generic
Framerate: 29.97
Nom. bitrate: 2450000 Bit/Sec
VBV buffer size: 112
Constrained param. flag: No
Chroma format: 4:2:0
DCT precision: 8
Pic. structure: Frame
Field topfirst: Yes
DCT type: Frame
Quantscale: Nonlinear
Scan type: ZigZag
Frame type: Progressive
The only difference was with TMPGenc, the VBV Buffer size was reported as 56- couldn't get it to change.
Visually, I can't see much difference- next test will be to convert the clip to SVCD and see how they compare on my TV.
Interesting note: on the Canopus site, they have a benchmark comparison: http://www.canopus.com/US/pdf/ProCoderBenchmarkAnalysis.pdf
Procoder -vs- Cleaner -vs- TMPGenc (I can see why they didn't test it against CCE!)

Just my 2 cents....

[BJ_M]

interisting comparison --- halfway thorugh they stopped comparing against tnpgenc and just picked on cleaner ...

[Gargoyle]

Yeah - because TMPGenc (or "tmpg"as they refer to it - they can't even spell it correctly) "doesn't support QuickTime conversions"!!
They should RTFM! (or check out this site!)