On 3/24/2012 6:09 PM, gregjohn wrote:
> I looked at TMPGenc, and wasn't sure if it were still free.
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>

Well, it is, I think. The problem is it is no longer being properly bug 
fixed, since they have the full on editing suite now. This wouldn't be a 
huge deal, except that they admit that one *huge* bug in the free one is 
that the encoder doesn't actually work correctly, and a) you *will* get 
sound desyncs, and b) it doesn't support the sort of resolutions that 
you might actually want to be using it with (for example, trying to 
produce HD video, or even DVD quality.

I discovered both while trying to convert a real video to a different 
format, wondered why the result both looked like crap, and the sound 
would half a second or more out of sync with the video, and then read, 
in the process of trying to figure it out, that it simply couldn't 
manage what I was asking it to do.

For "testing" I think it still OK, but.. if you want to do production... 
obviously it just doesn't cut it anymore, and due to the known encoder 
bug, never really did.

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