CCE Query. VCD 2.0 compliant??

[keithsebastian]

Is it possible to get a VCD compliant Mpeg stream by encoding with Cinemacraft encoder at 1150kbps video and 224kbps audio?

I am currently in the process of doing a CBR encode at the above settings, but the progress window display keeps fluctuating between 1.1mbps and 1.2 mbps. Hence the doubt.

Ps: I'm using VCM server with virtualdub to framserve to CCE.

How much better is CCE over Tmpeg quality wise?

Thanks in advance,
Keith

[adam]

Whatever bitrate you set in CCE you can be assured that, that is what you will get. Even in CBR encoding the bitrate still fluctuates per frame...CBR means the bitrate is constant every second, its still variable when applied to each frame. Basically CCE's estimation of bitrate is going to fluctuate slightly as well, but in the end it will always average out to what you set so don't worry.

CCE is an exceptional mpeg2 encoder, and generally considered higher quality than TMPGenc in this regard however its mpeg1 encoding is not very good. I think its safe to say that CCE is much worse than TMPGenc for mpeg1, though this might have changed with the latest version of CCE but I doubt it.

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keithsebastian,

both tmpgenc and CCE suffer bitrate spikes in CBR mode. From
memory the only software encoder that kept constant was the
old version of Panasonic encoder (the new version is hopeless.)

Are such spikes a problem for mpeg-1? Not that I've heard of.

[keithsebastian]

Thanks.
So I better stick to TMPEG for Mpeg1[/quote]