Is ffmpegX Quality the same as TMPGEnc?
 

So can mpeg2enc or ffmpeg give me the same quality as TMPGEnc? (480x480 MPEG2)

I guess I'll use ffmpeg from now on for "burn on RW, watch and delete stuff" as it really seems to be fast as hell! :D

I'm currently trying it out on my old PowerPC 400Mhz G4 (OC'ed to 450Mhz) :D
Running Mac OS X Server 10.2.6

-kwag

I encoded all my mpeg jobs until last year on my G4 MAC.

At that time FFmpegX was only able to encode at CBR and Qvbr (well as I can remember ;-) ).
So it had fewer options as in TMPGEnc... but the Quality in that case was good.

I love also the way of encoding with mpeg2enc using GUIs which allow directly to set the parameters in a seperate window like MMTools "-x -x -x -x etc."

But for me FFmpegX was the best designed application which uses the mpeg2enc when choosing the way without special modifyings in the parameter lines.

Good Job Major4!

On my preliminary tests using ffmpegX and ffmpeg (not mpeg2enc), quality is looking better than TMPEG 8O ( more tests to come! )
The motion estimation is SUPERB :!:
I can't get that with mpeg2enc :roll:

@major,
Are you getting the same results too, comparing ffmpeg and mpeg2enc :?:

More tests to come, with samples, hopefully later today.
Also, encoding speed (ffmpeg) just blows TMPEG away :!:

-kwag

so it's faster and looks better :D

Guess I'll have to make a new clean Linux install... :D :D :D

btw: who moved it into the ffmpegX forum... I have no mac... so it would be better in the ffmepg forum

Kwag, ... does FFmpegX work now faster, ... I mean when using a G4 400?

Last Year I needed about 10 hours to encode a 120min Movie at 480x576 mpeg2 using FFmpegX on a G4 400 in my office


I think now the REAL Mac Hype begins finally also in the mpeg video encoding sector ... with this new G5 speed monsters ;-)

uhhhm... are ffmpeg and ffmpegX based on the same source?
ffmpegx has afaik a nice gui...
ffmpeg hasn't (at least I havent seen one yet)

Yes, ffmpeg has better image quality, also it's incredibly fast. The only current problem of ffmpeg with mpeg-2 encoding (and to some extent with mpeg-1 too) is that the muxer doesn't create compliant streams and there is no SVCD support. But it is of course the most promising project around.

It sure is :D In the mean time, encode with parameter -an (Disable audio), or bring the encoded MPEG file to Windows, and demux with TMPEG. Then remux with BBMpeg or Mplex.
See my first test here: http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6032

-kwag

You can also multiplex on os-X or *nix when you have the transcode package installed.
The commandline utility "tcmplex" is actualy the bbmpeg multiplexer...