Hi David!

I think you'll find a lot of folks feel there's no
comparison between Cleaner 5 & near everything else. Then
again for the price... At any rate, I believe Cleaner does
a pass or two figuring out how to best optimize the file,
then goes back and does it, so it does take longer. I've
also read that it's a bit slower then 4 on some codecs.

For what it's worth, you might find the panasonic
compresser takes a bit longer then ligos, but seems to
deliver a somewhat better result. You also might want to
check out the TMPEGEnc encoder, though it's not nearly as
user friendly, & has a few quirks.

good luck
mike

Dave Hill wrote:
>>You'll need to experiment with the quality settings in
the
>>MPEG plug-in's custom settings- lots of room for
adjustment.
>>
>>David Settlemoir wrote:
>>>>I've encoded an mpeg-1 NTSC Video CD file from the
>>>>timeline. The source was a Canon GL-1 DV camcorder
>>through
>>>>a SIIG 1394 card. Timeline quality looks great, .avi's
>>>>look great, but the mpeg-1 file is so badly pixelated
it
>>>>looks terrible. The video CD I created (Smart and
>>Friendly
>>>>CD-RW disk/Nero 5)looks horrible through a stand-alone
>>Sony
>>>>DVD (DVP-S550D)player. Is this just the Ligos
encoder?
>>>>I'm currently running a 320 X 240 .avi of the same
source
>>>>video through Terran's Media Cleaner 5 (mpeg-1 default
>>>>settings). So far, it looks great (it's taking forever
>>to
>>>>encode on an Athlon 700)! What's up with the ligos
mpeg-
>>1
>>>>stuff?