ANY ONE USED New MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Encoder???

akg wrote on 11/27/2001, 6:13 AM

ANY ONE USED New MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Encoder???
HOW ABOUT IT QUALITY??
IS IT AS GOOD AS "TMPEG"
OR SUCKS AS OLD MPEG1.0 PLUG IN???

Comments

Jamz wrote on 11/27/2001, 8:49 AM

I'd say that even at the DVD presets which are very low bit rates, the Main concept encoder has the best quality of any I've played with. I compared it to the Premiere plugin (Ligos) & noticed more vividness in the colors (slight but very noticable) & a sharper picture even when Ligos was set at a higher bitrate than Main concept. I can't compare it to Cinecraft's $4000 encoder since I've never used that one but who has that kind of money to spend on an encoder? As compared to the old one in Vegas 2.0 it is much better due to the fact you have more control over the settings. The old one could only do constant bit rate (CBR) where the new one is capable of VBR. As far as MPEG-1, I gave up on that in the spring. MPEG-1 is tooo blocky in fast moving scenes.

rknauf wrote on 11/28/2001, 1:29 PM

I've been using MPEG-2 for a few days now, making some DVDs. The quality is awesome. My only issue is that the MPEG-2 file itself, will not play on all Windows Media Players on different PCs...all same versions of WMP too.

SonySDB wrote on 11/29/2001, 7:02 AM

WMP does not decode MPEG-2s by default; it only decodes MPEG-1s. However, if your PC has a third-party DirectShow MPEG-2 filters installed on it then, WMP can decode MPEG-2s. This explains why your MPEG-2s play in WMP on some PCs and not others.