Tmpg Vs. Cce

[Dionysus]

So which is better. One guy in the TMPG forum said that it was a little better quality. Now I've just got the TMPGEnc down to a tee and it comes out with good quality, good enough for me that is and I'm pretty picky, but I was wondering which performed better. The reason I ask is cuz I don't want to have to go through the, which seems like, a much more complicated process to do CCE than the, I guess easy to me, TMPG?? Any Suggestions??

Thanx

[Taric25]

TMPEG is a good program because it does aspect ratios correctly and is very configurable. CCE's quality is MUCH better and is WAY WAY WAY faster. To use these to programs together is very simple: VFAPI. After making all your settings correct in TMPEG, make a project file (make sure you have the VFP plugin installed) and save it. Open VFAPI and load the project file into it. Hit Go (or whatever it is in your native language) and a very small AVI file will be created. You can then load that file into CCE and you can configure it to your heart's content. Hit Encode (or whatever it is in your native language) and it will encode TMPEG's input files with TMPEG's settings, with CCE's quality and speed.

I ALWAYS encode this way and I get GREAT quality results. I play the VCDs I make on my DVD player and my friends think that they are DVDs!:D

[Movieslut]

You say it produces a small avi. Now, I know that small is a relative thing, but a 900meg file isnt what I call small :) I have all 3 options selected. Also, if I open this in CCE and click encode, it returns 'Cant find appopriate video codec for VIFP'.
I guess I'm doing something wrong then....

hints?
....like installing the enclosed codec :) sorry guys....

[gldblade]

You probably solved this already, but here goes...

>Now, I know that small is a relative thing, but a 900meg file isnt what I call small I have all 3 options selected

No way. The largest file you will get should not exceed 5 mb.

[Yakumo]

The problem why the avi file of vpapicon is so big is that you forgot to push te audio box out in vpapicon. If you do that the file should be big. About a couple of mb.

Greetz,
Yakumo

[Movieslut]

It kinda worked. I now have 30meg files. It says the movies are 5 hours, but I can select the correct number of frames in CCE, so this shouldnt be a prob. How come that using audio makes the files so big anyway? I cant read the dox as they are japanese

tnx

[gldblade]

>I now have 30meg files. It says the movies are 5 hours

It's probably 30 megs because it's 5 hours long. Something else apparently went wrong...

And about audio, I think it's probably copying directly from the ac3 soundtrack and repeating it multiple times since it thinks its 5 hours long. ~300 x 3 times is about 900 mb. But that's only a guess...

[Movieslut]

No, it is just a 89 mins divx

[gldblade]

Sorry, I meant that it "thinks" it's 5 hours long and repeats it multiple times with the audio.

[Movieslut]

Yeah, Sometimes I have had this problem using Tmpgenc, so I guess it is a bug in this prg. I just tell cce to encode only so many frames as virtual dub tells me...
Lets see if everything works out