CinemaCraftEncoder Question PLEASE HELP

[hTK]

I am a new user to this encoder and i have heard good things about it firstly questions in order,

- Which one out of TMPGenc or CCE would produce best quality results ???

- I drag and drop an DivX .AVI file into the encoder window and attempt to convert it to .MPG MPEG-2 stream with Standard or High Quality Profile settings, but i get an error message.

"expect 8bytes but only got 0bytes" or something like that

I dont know what this is... i have tried other AVI's but the same.....

What are the recommended settings please to make a basic SVCD out of a DivX...?????

Please please please i would love to give this encoder a go and see what it can produce.....

Regards,
hTK

[smchgait]

Hi

If you convert a DVD to SVCD CCE is the best choice.
If you encode an AVI you captured from TV TMPGencoder
is the better choice as it has a very good noise reduction filter implemented, which is in my opinion better than CCE.
Noise reduction is very important(25/1/20 High quality in TMPG). If you reduce noise it will have the same effect on picture quality like going up with the bitrate.

I think something with your AVI is wrong. Try to load it into VirtualDub and frameserve it to CCE or TMPGencoder.

In CCE do not encode audio in Multipass VBR or CCE will
crash. It has a bug.

Uncheck under Video "upper field first".
Check under iDCT precision AUTO.
Leave all other settings as they are.
If you want to make a SVCD and play it on a standalone player (VCD/DVD) you will have to save to project file (*.ecl)and manualy edit(with windows editor) the packet size to 2324 instead of 4096 and then load the project file. If you don´t do this, your files won´t be 100% SVCD compliant.

[Peter]

Use VFapi to make a 'reference' file of the DiVX and load this into CCE.

[VidGuy]

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On 2001-09-14 09:08:01, smchgait wrote:

If you want to make a SVCD and play it on a standalone player (VCD/DVD) you will have to save to project file (*.ecl)and manualy edit(with windows editor) the packet size to 2324 instead of 4096 and then load the project file. If you don´t do this, your files won´t be 100% SVCD compliant.

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I don't think this step is necessary if you encode the audio separately and mux the MPeg with BBMpeg - BBMPeg will take care of changing the packet size to 2324...

[BeTa]

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That was exactly my assumption, too.
BeTa

[hTK]

Thank people for the replies...

Does CCE stream to MPG... or 2 seperate files that i have to mux into BBMpeg ....????

[2pac]

It comes out in two separate files and yeah, you do have to multiplex them with TMPGEnc or BBmpeg.