What are the pros and cons of CCE amd TMPG?

[Jason28]

The subject pretty much says it all. Is there any andvantage to TMPG or CCE? I wanted to purchase one of them CCE is $250 and TMPG is only $48. Thanks for the help.

[chainsaw135]

This should be in the svcd section not dvd2svcd.

If You should look around a bit, you will find alot of information that can help you in figuring out the main pro's and con's
here is a short list,

1.cce is faster then tmpgenc
2.tempgenc is better at vcd then cce
3.cce is better at making svcd then tmpgenc is
4.tmpgenc is only 48.00 cce2.50sp which most of us use is a few thousand.
5.cce seems to have more issues with peoples systems then tmpgenc does.

[ppera2]

Where am I ? I don't see that this is DVD2SVCD section...

CCE is expensive, need couple external programs for work - no resize for example. It is hard to set to work without crashes on many configurations. Only advantage is big speed and possibility to make more than 2 pass encoding for better quality.
I think that get CCE is worth only if you plan to make lot of SVCD's.

[dvd2svcd]

It was moved from the dvd2svcd forum.

[ulfschack]

Tsunami knocks the socks of CCE with SVCDs from DV material. I've tried and compared. Oh, how I've tried. Trust me on this one.

One cause of this everlasting battle (cce vs. tmpgEnc) is doubtlessly due to comparison of apples and pears (DV(avi) or Dvd( mpeg2)), where CCE probalbly (judging from the forum majority) makes a better mpeg2-to-mpeg2 than TmpgEnc. I simply can't find another explanation, since the quality of DV encodes is so very apparantly better using TmpgEnc.

Of course when making Home Videos you can just CHOOSE to make the videos 40 minutes long, thus being able to use CBR 2600, which makes the speed issue next to isignificant especially if you own a p4.

So for the ones bent on copying hollywood's dvds pay the $4000 for CCE and get the alledged itsy edge over the tsunami, but if your making Home videos this would border on insanity. *ok ... calm down now* :)