Linux (S)VCD/DVD quality in comparison to TMPGEnc

[OutSiderSP]

I have slackware installed with a lot of sound/video libraries. I was thinking about encoding (K)(S)VCD/(K)DVD under Linux just to check whether the speed is better than in Win2k. Does anyone have a link or anything that compares both speed and video/sound quality of VCD/DVD created under Linux and under Win2k?

The comparison could be with TMPGEnc as its video quality is much better than CCE 2.67 for me. Also. K(S)VCD works better in TMPGEnc.

Thanks in advance.

[DaveQB]

I just used tovid to encode a bunch of videos to DVD - mpeg2 and i took sample and did it in TMPEGenc on a Windows box.

There is a quality difference there, as suspected. Why i suspected was simply because tovid took 2 hours to do one of these videos where as TMPEGenc took 3 hours just to do a sample (about 30%)

The major difference was the field/grass (it was sporting events) the actual players looked the same, but the tovid encode the grass was 'smoothed' over too much.

tovid uses MPlayer/MEncoder as a backend plus mjpegtools.

I am sure there are options to increase the quality like enabling 2-pass like TMPEGenc does by default and increasing the motion estimation precision.

[Johnny_Deep_Down_Below]

The comparison could be with TMPGEnc as its video quality is much better than CCE 2.67 for me.

Yeah! YOU are definately a REAL expert!!!!!
;)

And VCDs look so much better than those crappy DVDs, right? But why to take them? There are still VHS-tapes, and they have such a GREAT quality!!! Almost as good as BetaMax or Video 2000.

[outlyer]

I'd also like to know of any comparisons between lavc/ffmpeg and mjpegtools as every reference I found is too old and I guess both have have improved over time.

Originally posted by Johnny_Deep_Down_Below
Yeah! YOU are definately a REAL expert!!!!!
;)

And VCDs look so much better than those crappy DVDs, right? But why to take them? There are still VHS-tapes, and they have such a GREAT quality!!! Almost as good as BetaMax or Video 2000.
Hey, hey, hey, no need to be a dick (s?)he has stated it's a subjective observation.

[cweb]

What he mentioned was KVCD's, KSVCD's and KDVD's, which are not the same as VCD. I don't think johnny knows the difference...

[shevegen]

Johnny is one helpful guy!