Alternative to ReMPEG2?

[SiCN]

Does one of you know an alternative to ReMPEG2? I've been trying the program on a Athlon 1800 XP and a Pentium 4 2.0GHz and the encoding-speed is horrible. Some movies will take up to 2 days whereas a whole movie to SVCD with CCE takes appx. two hours.

Any ideas? Is it possible to re-encode the movie in Cinema Craft with the same settings etc. as the original MPEG2 file?

[EnemyWithin]

If you have CCE, then use that. You just won't be able to remux directly into IFOEDIT.

Transcode with CCE to create the .m2v, demux the .ac3 (vobedit, smartripper, etc), extract the chapter points with one of the available softwares, author the new DVD with the .m2v and .ac3(SpruceUp, etc), add chapter points, burn.

You can also use TMPGEnc to do the transcoding, but if you have CCE and know how to use it, might as well stick with it.

[wayned16]

is there any guides?

[EnemyWithin]

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/ifoedit-basic.htm

[Blackout]

Hi Enemy,

i would like to know how you get CCE to do the re-coding. It wont load a vob file. It wont load a mpeg file. It wont load the DVD2AVI-created .d2v file. Are you converting a 2 hour movie to AVI to be able to use CCE?

Blackout

[EnemyWithin]

Blackout,

I haven't used CCE yet, but according to this tutorial ( http://www.doom9.org/mpg/cce-advanced.htm ), in Step 2 you have to use VFAPI Converter to transform the .d2v into something CCE can open.

[Vapor]

Although VFApi works it's a bit slow.

Once you have a .d2v from DVD2AVI frameserver it to CCE using avisynth.

Guide: http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm

[q1aqza]

SiCN, I use prediction mode in ReMPEG and a two hour movie takes approx 9-10 hours (I leave it running overnight) on a 1.4 Athlon - I found the quality difference between Prediction and Full hardly noticeable (if at all) - are you using Full as this can take days?

I would love to use my CCE to encode DVD rips for DVDR but I haven't seen any Authoring software that will handle AC3 Dolby Digital 5.1 audio for less than £600 GBP.

Can anyone recommend any cheaper authoring software that will do the job?

[edo]

SpruceUp handles the AC3 files fine.
Effectively now costs bu&&er all since there is noone to offer payment to.

Cheers ....

[q1aqza]

Thanks Edo - where can I download a 'trial' copy?

[Blackout]

Thanks enemy for putting me on the right track, indeed VTAPI is what i needed to get CCE to work with dvd2AVi. Rokkin. Im away now.

Now if only someone would put all this code together into one program PLEASE....i know a lot more than i need to know about this entire process....Decrypting, Converting, re-mpeging, colleating, reburning...sheesh.

cheers,
Blackout

[EnemyWithin]

Blackout,

I would take Vapor's advice and try Avisynth. It looks like that is the current recommended method.

[Blackout]

Hi all,

have any of you managed to get this method to work with CCE 2.64? i can only get this method to work with CCE2.5....with 2.64 the "Transcoding" box comes up and then it freezes instantly....would prefer to use 2.64....

Kind Regards,
blackout

[Vapor]

Nope, IIRC versions above 2.50 except the new 2.66beta don't accept AVISYNTH scripts properly and if you check around peoples opinions of 2.62 and 2.64 are that they introduced too many bugs to be worth the effort. 2.50 is considered the most stable method and quality wise there is no difference between this and newer versions.

[Blackout]

Thanks vapour,

2.64 also doesnt work with VTAPI. Hopefully CCE2.5 makes files over 2GB with an NTFS drive...reports are that it doesnt, but im not sure if they are referring to FAT32 partitions which would not be CCE's fault...

[Vapor]

I use CCE 2.50 and NTFS partitions and regularly create single encode files of 2.8-3.0gb for chopping into 4xSVCD sets.

FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.
AVI classic format has a 2gb file size limit.

Neither affect mpg files on NTFS partitions, the biggest I have encoded is 3.8gb as 1 file but I'm sure any size for mpg on NTFS is no probs.

[jr2k]

Does one of you know an alternative to ReMPEG2? I've been trying the program on a Athlon 1800 XP and a Pentium 4 2.0GHz and the encoding-speed is horrible. Some movies will take up to 2 days

something wrong there m8..............i've only got an 750mhz athlon and i used rempeg on lord of the rings, which is a big movie and it took 15 hours.................

[SiCN]

Still, it just takes too long (even if it only were 15h). I can easily compress a movie with CCESP2.66 at 1,5 times realtime on my machine so the power is there, ReMPEG2 is simply a piece of shit.

Anyways, the question is still open: Does someone know an alternative to ReMPEG2 or does somebody know how to transcode a movie in CCE2.66, when I do it IfoEdit won't correctly import the MPEG2 file... or well, it does, but the movie is out of sync afterwards.

Well, again, I'd be very thankful for any tips!

[wulf109]

There is no alternative to REmpeg. I just transcoded Gone With The wind and it took 9.5 hrs to transcode the 4 hrs of video. I leave the defalt settings in Rempeg except change to same as source and 720x480.
It's very important to have DMA transfer turned on for your HD. Having it turned off can double your encodeing time.

[P@iNKilleR]

Thanks Edo - where can I download a 'trial' copy?

All U have to do is a bit of searching about using googe & will find a copy of the trial as the link from vcdhelp takes you to the old spruce site with an explanation about it not around. Ulead does a nice authoring suite & it takes ac3 files quite nicely & theres a link to the trial aswell but its a fart on getting it.


Kev!

[SiCN]

@wulf109: I personally think that the default settings in ReMPEG2 generate totally inferiour results (worse than a SVCD which has been shrinked to 2Mb/s VBR), so the only acceptable is to use only settings which generate the best quality and exactly those settings cause ReMPEG2 to run too long (35h is not normal).

[q1aqza]

P@inkiller,

Thanks for your post about finding Spruce. My post was way back in August and I have long since acquired it !!.

Thanks anyway

[P@iNKilleR]

silly me I never looked at the date ... how stupid lol anyway do U find it works to your satisfaction...

kev!

[bugster]

There is no alternative to REmpeg.

Has nobody ever tried DVD2SVCD plus TmpGenc (or CCE 2.5 if you prefer)????

[SiCN]

Well, the guy creating ReMPEG2 doesn't really seem to continue production on it either (and by that the hope to get a better product). I tried to send a mail to him and asked if I'd be allowed to continue coding it, but no answer. TOo bad....