crop and trim mpeg2 using CBR

[infante]

Hi All,
need to find a software to crop and trim an MPEG-2 source and output back to MPEG-2. Encoding needs to be with CBR (requirement)

I've tried a variety of programs both open source/ free and commercial

videoredo (cannot output CBR in latest version)
mediacoder (errors on CBR but works on VBR)
movavi (bug in software cannot output CBR)
Tencoder (no cropping or CBR)
Xilisoft Video Converter (bug in software cannot output CBR)

help! any suggestions without spending too much .

thanks

[Guest]

Decode with DGMPGDec
Crop with Avisynth
Rencode with HCEnc
Mux with one of many

[Taurus]

TMPGEnc can do all this and more (yes cbr encoding too).
But as neuron2 wrote:
With some little avisynth skills and HCEnc is the way to go ;):D

[manolito]

HCEnc does NOT support CBR.

If the quality of ffmpeg is all you need give WinFF a try. This a very basic GUI for ffmpeg, and it does simple cropping and trimming. To achieve true CBR with ffmpeg to have to set bitrate, min bitrate and max bitrate to the same values.

Cheers
manolito