Hi does anyone in this forum knows of any software which offer fast converting of avi format to mpeg or VCD format. Currently a 22 min avi took me 47 min to convert to vcd format, software which i used avi to vcd, lsx mpeg which offer the same speed which i stated, so if anyone knows of any software which can convert very fast, pls mail me.

-- chris (dropino@msn.com), September 17, 2002

Answers

The time it took you to encode is not unreasonable. You might want to consider that as a general rule faster software encoders do a poorer job in terms of quality. TMPGenc, which is free, is a very good encoder, but it's not fast. It does produce high quality output. You can find it at http://www.tempgenc.net. The best way to improve the speed of your encodes is to get a faster PC with more memory instead of trying to find a faster program that will give you worse results.

-- root (root@yahoo.com), September 17, 2002.

22min of program material taking 47min to encode is a good thing. I encoded about an hour's worth of DV AVI through VideoServer plugin to TMPGencPlus 2.57 from the Premiere timeline to get a DVD-compliant MPEG-2 stream and the lot took 16hrs (!). Admittedly I turned on noise-reduction plus a few other filters in TMPGenc which may have contributed to the slowing down (despite 256MB of RDRAM on an D850MV chipset with P4A 2GHz) but the excellent quality I got (which is what DVD is all about, for one thing) makes it hard for me to complain. Others can have their h/w encoders or otherwise expensive, overhyped, and bloated s/w encoders (like Terran Cleaner 5) that produce wretched, blocky CBR (shameful!) MPEG-2 streams anyday. Okay, seriously: you may want to consider the new Premiere 6.5. It has a built-in MPEG encoder that has received high marks in certain reviews for quality but encodes (unfortunately) no faster than what you may have.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), September 18, 2002.

Mehmet, have you used or seen footage with the encoder in 6.5 yet? I'm upgrading soon and am curious.

Cheers

-- No One (no@one.com), September 18, 2002.

I use tmpgenc (also avi2vcd) and have seen that with a new amd 2000+ (1667 mhz) it only takes me around 15 min for 20 minutes of mpeg1 video to convert to mpeg1vcd video. i dont know about avi yet... but Mehmet and Root are right a faster pc is probably the best upgrade. I got good results when i made my cartoon vcds from those mpeg1 recordings. better than when i recorded the cartoons into avi wich used more space. try mpeg1 and see what happens i just found this out on my own experimenting. daniel

-- daniel b (bonl1@cs.com), September 18, 2002.

Hi, try downloading "Ahead Nero Burner" This cd writing tool automatically changes avi files and mpeg files to video cd files... very usefull for playing your pc movies onto your dvd player at your tv.

-- anonymous (xxx@xxx.com), September 22, 2002.

I have found Nero is relatively fast (one and half hours for converting 50 minutes of AVI into VCD) but the quality has been poor. It starts off ok but slowly the sound goes out of sink with the video and the video becomes choppy.

-- Tio Milton (tiomilty@hotmail.com), October 12, 2002.

Yee, Nero sucks in converting AVI to mpeg. Bad frame motion and degraded video quality is the only result.

-- Ozan (asasa@sds.com), April 02, 2003.

Yes, Nero sucks in converting AVI to Mpeg, i don't care much about the speed but i do care about videoquality and that is very poor. is there someone outthere with a better alternative?

pierre

-- pierre (babylonsister45@hotmail.com), April 04, 2003.

hi all, tmpegnc is about the best, if you get a acm error, this is due to the audio compression, use decompressor from avi2vcd to decompress the audio, you should'nt have any further problems.

-- greybadger (greybadgeruk@hotmail.com), April 10, 2003.

Hi!!!

I've just begun to try out the tmpgenc and what I am not able to do is to convert the avi to vcd into one only cd. Let's say that the avi I want to convert is 760mb and I want to get the whole thing in a 700mb/80 min cd, I don't know how to. I know it can be done wht I'm a rookie Thank for any help you can give me. regards from Spain

-- quim (rinyitu@hotmail.com), November 30, 2003.