Amnon82
7th October 2005, 22:37
Congrats Hank,
you did it. With the newest issue of PCMagazin whole germany knows now about HCEnc. HCEnc is even better than TMPGEnc3XP, almost CCE-Quality!!!
Here the beginning of the article:
Bisher erreichten Freeware-MPEG-2-Encoder nicht annähernd die Bildqualität der kommerziellen Konkurrenz. Mit Hank's MPEG-2-Encoder HC 0.15A scheint sich das Blatt erstmals zu wenden: Bereits in dieser jungen Versionsnummer ist die Freeware zu einer qualitativ hochwertigen Konkurrenz gereift.
Ok, not all can german, so I translate for you all :)
Normaly no freeware mpeg2 encoder reaches the picture quality of the commercial competitors. With hank's mpeg2 encoder hc 15a the leaf turns the first time: Even in the early state this freeware is grown to a high quality competitor. (Sorry for the bad translation. I'm tired ...)
The article mentioned FreeEnc and QuEnc shortly, but tells everybody that these encoder produces bad quality. So they stick to HC and compare it with TMPGEnc3XP and CCE SP 2.70. TMPGEnc loses the tests and HC wins the second place. CCE produces minmal better quality (only if you disable all filters in picture quality). The normal and best mode of HC is almost the same.
Then they mentioned the lost features, such as MPG1, MP2-Audio, import of several files. Also they didn't like that the user have to setup HC and tell it that the source is progressive or interlaced plus the fieldorder.
The fourth part of the article discribes the using of hc. They use DGIndex plus AVISynth as frameserver. Telling the user how to setup/using DGIndex, AVISynth (in a extra box) and HC.
In the fazit they tell everybody that hc is the first freeware which win a place in the top 10 of the best mpeg2encoders. On their wishlist are integration of filters, scaling/cutting of the sourcematerial, converting of the audio tracks, support for mpeg1 and (S)VCD/DVD-Profiles.
you did it. With the newest issue of PCMagazin whole germany knows now about HCEnc. HCEnc is even better than TMPGEnc3XP, almost CCE-Quality!!!
Here the beginning of the article:
Bisher erreichten Freeware-MPEG-2-Encoder nicht annähernd die Bildqualität der kommerziellen Konkurrenz. Mit Hank's MPEG-2-Encoder HC 0.15A scheint sich das Blatt erstmals zu wenden: Bereits in dieser jungen Versionsnummer ist die Freeware zu einer qualitativ hochwertigen Konkurrenz gereift.
Ok, not all can german, so I translate for you all :)
Normaly no freeware mpeg2 encoder reaches the picture quality of the commercial competitors. With hank's mpeg2 encoder hc 15a the leaf turns the first time: Even in the early state this freeware is grown to a high quality competitor. (Sorry for the bad translation. I'm tired ...)
The article mentioned FreeEnc and QuEnc shortly, but tells everybody that these encoder produces bad quality. So they stick to HC and compare it with TMPGEnc3XP and CCE SP 2.70. TMPGEnc loses the tests and HC wins the second place. CCE produces minmal better quality (only if you disable all filters in picture quality). The normal and best mode of HC is almost the same.
Then they mentioned the lost features, such as MPG1, MP2-Audio, import of several files. Also they didn't like that the user have to setup HC and tell it that the source is progressive or interlaced plus the fieldorder.
The fourth part of the article discribes the using of hc. They use DGIndex plus AVISynth as frameserver. Telling the user how to setup/using DGIndex, AVISynth (in a extra box) and HC.
In the fazit they tell everybody that hc is the first freeware which win a place in the top 10 of the best mpeg2encoders. On their wishlist are integration of filters, scaling/cutting of the sourcematerial, converting of the audio tracks, support for mpeg1 and (S)VCD/DVD-Profiles.