TrevorS
11th July 2006, 19:33
Hi,
I've been looking for an affordable (as in cheaper the better) high quality DIVX (AVI) to MPEG2 transcoder to use with my Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U. (Yes, the PX-M402U provides great looking MPEG2HQ, but it periodically exhibits a frame sequencing error that can be very distracting. The DIVXHQ output seems to be clean.)
I tried [] and another, but the quality wasn't there, then I ran into CCE Basic which is supposedly very good. So, I downloaded the "30 day trial" version from download.com:
http://www.download.com/Cinema-Craft...l?tag=foot_pub
Problem is my template inputs don't seem to make any difference and it consistently screws up the audio (tried 2 pass CBR with System Stream and audio at 48KHz sampling, also 8Kbps Vs 6Kbps and one notch higher quality than middle setting). My Divx files are the highest HQ w/ MP2 my ConvertX can deliver and they look and sound great when played directly.
The video output may be similar quality to the Divx, but without being able to try things I can't tell what the product can do, and as I said, it wrecks the sound (need to be able to verify both sound quality and A/V synchronism).
Any idea what I'm doing wrong or is there something else I should be looking at.
Thanks -- Trevor
PS. Also noticed I can only record a tiny fragment of the original file (maybe 3 min) -- doesn't tell me a whole lot.
I've been looking for an affordable (as in cheaper the better) high quality DIVX (AVI) to MPEG2 transcoder to use with my Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U. (Yes, the PX-M402U provides great looking MPEG2HQ, but it periodically exhibits a frame sequencing error that can be very distracting. The DIVXHQ output seems to be clean.)
I tried [] and another, but the quality wasn't there, then I ran into CCE Basic which is supposedly very good. So, I downloaded the "30 day trial" version from download.com:
http://www.download.com/Cinema-Craft...l?tag=foot_pub
Problem is my template inputs don't seem to make any difference and it consistently screws up the audio (tried 2 pass CBR with System Stream and audio at 48KHz sampling, also 8Kbps Vs 6Kbps and one notch higher quality than middle setting). My Divx files are the highest HQ w/ MP2 my ConvertX can deliver and they look and sound great when played directly.
The video output may be similar quality to the Divx, but without being able to try things I can't tell what the product can do, and as I said, it wrecks the sound (need to be able to verify both sound quality and A/V synchronism).
Any idea what I'm doing wrong or is there something else I should be looking at.
Thanks -- Trevor
PS. Also noticed I can only record a tiny fragment of the original file (maybe 3 min) -- doesn't tell me a whole lot.