Re: [transcode-users] Odd TMPEnc combo problem - "new RIFF chunkthrows it"

[Phil Ehrens <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Humphries wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> >> Is there any possibility of disabling this chunking so that the large
> >> file is one large chunk? TMPGEnc can handle plain uncompressed AVI
> >> files up to 4GB.
> >
> >AFAIK this is a limitation defined in the avi standard. Why don't
> >you just use Transcode instead? And AFAIK, Transcode and Mencoder will
> >both happily read huge avi files and convert them into, yeccch, mpeg1.
> 
> I've found that TMPGEnc produces visibly better quality MPEGs for my
> animations and other MPEGs and I'd need to be proven wrong before I
> switch.
> 
> Of course, feel free to give me a command to run that will prove me wrong :)

At 352x288 there is a visible difference?! What kind of content
are you encoding? Is your target VCD?

Can anybody comment on *why* TMPGEnc produces higher quality
output? Is it just well-chosen defaults? I find that I can
do pretty nearly whatever I want in terms of visual quality
by using lavc options and filter plugins.