[MPlayer-users] tmpgenc is better!?!?!?

[Michael Loose]

Up with my experiences. So far nothing (I did say nothing, the bid is 
two boxes of Budweiser) i've tried running Linux is up with TMPEGenc. 
Period.

I'd love to find a native solution, but....



Carsten Koch wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Wendy Tromp wrote:
> ...
>
>> I made this homevideo, with a sony (digital) camera, and i captured 
>> it using adobe premiere, and then i encoded it to mpeg using tmpenc. 
>> 1 hour and 8 minutes of film take about 700 mb. This is reasonable 
>> and I tried to create divx with mencoder, but the quality is a lot 
>> worse. I have played with options all week and I cannot get good 
>> quality divx...
>> Can anyone show me an example of what they use when they create divx? 
>> I'd like to see that to work with.
>
>
> Same experience here.
> I have source material that is all-digital (from DVB-S).
> When I encode it with mencoder, I get compression artefacts and
> overall a much worse quality than, for example, when recording the
> same movie with an SGI O2's built-in analog composite video capture
> card and compress it to MPEG-1 with SGI's dmconvert. Even with a
> complete 90 minute movie squeezed on one CD, a dmconvert MPEG-1
> looks a lot better than a mencoder divx of the same size.
>
> I believe the secret is, that dmconvert and TMPGEnc have absolutely
> the very best algorithms for an optimum quantize matrix and GOP
> structure, so they just squeeze much more quality into almost the
> same size in spite of the inferior MPEG-1 format.
>
> Of course, dmconvert only runs on IRIX and takes forever on a 180MHz
> SGI O2 and TMPGEnc is for an "operating system" that I personally
> do not like to use, so I would *love* to be proven wrong. If anyone
> shows me how to create excellent quality compression with mencoder,
> I'll switch immediately.
>
>
> Carsten.
>
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