VMS4 MPEG2 Quality

Travelog wrote on 9/10/2004, 8:52 AM

Subjectively, it seems to me that, although the MPEG encoding in VMS4 is much quicker than in MS3, this is at the expense of quality.

Has anyone found a way to "tweak" the quality settings in VMS4, or must I resign myself to rendering an AVI in VMS4, and then using TMPGENC (dual pass / variable bit rate) to produce an acceptable MPEG file?

Comments

ChristerTX wrote on 9/10/2004, 1:31 PM

Would not VMS4 have the same MPEG2 encoder??
I seriously doubt it would be different from MS3

simbo73 wrote on 9/11/2004, 9:47 AM

I have also noticed the improved MPEG2 performance, but I can't say I noticed any difference quality, but then again I wasn't really looking for it. I might try out some tests and see...

Christer: VMS4 appears to use v2 of the MainConcept encoder, unlike SMS3 which used v1.