Re: Does TMPGEnc still offer a 30-day trial?


"PTravel" <ptravel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are there free mpeg transcoders? I didn't know that. I hear that
question asked frequently.


Sure, most are based on ffdshow &/or the library projects
at SourceForge.net. Several products out there are just
GUI for these and other freeware projects. (Like Media
Coder). There are also a number of prerelease commercial
programs still floating around that work well.

One I find of special interest is a hacked version of the ATI
Cobra Encoder, but it is more in the very fast category than
in the very good. I haven't tried it for DVD compliant MPEG,
just for H264. It might be worth trying on DV to DVD, it is
super fast. The hacked GUI is ok for most conversions, I'm
sure, but you will really see the codec's capabilities if you use
GraphEdit and set things up using the property pages.


It's called AvivoXCode. Might still be good:
http://rapidshare.de/files/9479567/Avivo.rar.html

To use GraphEdit add the following DirectShow "filters":

File Source (Async.) [I select my .mpg source with this filter]

A splitter for whatever type of source [I use MPEG_2_Splitter,
don't know where I got it from. But you probably have several,
including an avi splitter.]

ATI MPEG Audio and Video Decoders

[ I throw "MatrixMixer" and an Image Scaler in here]

ATI MPEG Audio and Video Encoders (right-click on the
filter box and check the "Filter Properties..." for settings)

ATI Multiplexer (Set "Filter Properties..." to DVD mode.)

A File Writer or "Dump" filter.

Luck;
Ken





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