POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : Building MPEG : Re: Building MPEG Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:21:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Building MPEG  
From: Nicolas Calimet
Date: 30 Oct 2000 12:31:43
Message: <39FDB1CF.6DB2BD63@free.fr>
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Salut Simon ;-)
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>         I have been using mpeg2encode for a few months now and this is the only tool
> I've used at all for encoding MPEG from pictures.
>
> I was wondering two things,
>  1) what are the software for linux that are capable of encrypting a good
> animation for the IRTC. (ie: valid encryption)
>  2) what are the software for linux that are capable of encrypting an animation
> with the Best quality of frames and still a bit of compression (I'm talking
> about mpeg, not avi...)

	What's wrong with the MSSG encoder ? What do you mean by valid encoding ?
The mpeg2encode tool is supposed to give you "valid" files since it has been
used for the test models of the MPEG Commitee.
	There are several ways to improve quality of an encoding, in general
sense, not only with this tools. Parameters depend on which models you want
to use (MPEG-1 or 2), the bitrate you need, the type of source (TV caps, CG
animation, ...) and much more. I could manage having correct results in MPEG-2
with this tool while tweaking default parameters carefully.
	Under Linux, I don't know much good softs for encoding, but there's
one that rules in Windows platform: TMPGEnc. It's free until now, best quality
ever - even commercial softs can't cope with it. Produces VCD/SVCD/DVD(NTSC)-
compliant video streams. It's a japanese soft, but there are english ressources
for it (patch) until the author switch to an english version (should be the
next release).

Current TMPGEnc website:          www.yks.ne.jp/~hori/TMPGEnc.html
Future location (not ready yet):  www.tmpgenc.com
English ressources:               www.jamsoft.com/tmpgenc/ [check this one first]

	Note: I posted similar infos in p.unix a few months ago in the
"mpeg_encode Berkeley" thread (2000-08-20)

	Believe me, you should try it, it's also very fast. Input in from AVI
stream, but you can easily make it from TGA files.
	This soft, a few other tools, and DVD players are the only reason for
me to keep windoze on my PC ;-)


*** Nicolas Calimet
*** http://pov4grasp.free.fr


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