I ve had a long experience in converting DIVX videos to MPEG to write VCDs, and the results have been very decent using TMPGEnc.

I did notice, though, that during playback I have an occasional slowdown of the video while the audio continues at normal speed, only for the video to accelerate a few seconds later and catch up with the audio. This produces jerkiness and makes for less enjoyable viewing (although it s only for a few seconds every 10 minutes or so). Has anyone ever experienced this?

Before you tell me to demux the audio, please know that I almost always demux audio, convert AC3 or Ogg Vorbis Audio to uncompressed Wav before encoding - On many occasions, I even frameserve from Virtual Dub after applying resize and subtitle filters for instance.
I also have the DirectShow filters on high priority within


I have tried an alternative: using Panasonic Encoder 2.51. This produces no jerkiness whatsoever. Quality of the video, however, is overall inferior, with more artifacts than with TMPGEnc. What s more, PE 2.51 needs you to perform manual resize calculations (no big deal, nothing that a tiny Excel sheet cannot handle), and does not have additional options like audio normalization for instance.

Any contribution on my TMPGEnc problems are welcome. Any other suggestion as to a better encoding software are also welcome.