11 Jan
2005
11 Jan
'05
5:08 a.m.
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Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>Roger Merchberger wrote:
>>As I have to, at both work and home. Work: Peachtree. Other than that, I
>>SSH into all of my linux servers. ;-) Home: MPEG transcoding software
>>from my TiVo to SVCD. Linux just doesn't have the (inexpensive) software
>>yet. Good stuff is $$$$$, free stuff isn't worth dealing with.
>
>Are you on crack? Mencoder does the job admirably.
Having never even smoked pot, I *should* be offended by that... but I won't.
'Course, having been xcoding MPEGs from my TiVo for almost 4 years, and
having seen the output of Mencoder compared to TMPGEnc, I *should* be
offended by that...
As I do *many* shows (for my wife, mainly) I also rely heavily on AviSynth
-- a most excellent tool for assembling, resizing (it even supports Lanczos
resizing, and has plugins for *everything*), and scripting -- and as it's
all text, I have a custom GUI Python program for determining the commercial
breaks & final bandwidth to just fill an SVCD,
And is there a decent tool similar to VirtualDub that can help me *find*
the commercial breaks to cut them?
=== Just because your tool works good *for you* certainly does not mean
it's not suitable for me due to a drug habit.
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and rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:
I've got to agree with Roger, the free encoders
just aren't worth messing
with. The interesting thing is that $50 gets you TMPGEnc Plus on Windows,
which is one of the best encoders around. Given the choice between that
and the Compressor (Pro Apple software) on my G5 PowerMac, and I'll take
TMPGEnc Plus, at least for VCD or SVCD. I have used Compressor to do
Anamorphic Widescreen home movies, and for MPEG2, it is probably better.
SVCD is MPEG2 -- and I've put TMPGEnc head-to-head with Premiere 6.0, and I
saw little difference; certainly not to justify the difference in price.
Once I found and learned AviSynth, I'll put the combo of the 2 against
darned near anything for speed, ease of use and quality.
AviSynth is one of those tools that it takes a bit'o'learning to use, but
once you do, resizing, deinterlacing, decimating & whatnot are childs play.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. Thanks, Zane!
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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