FreeEnc: New High Quality MPEG2 Encoder

vmesquita my friend. I'll try your encoder. Good work so far.:D

Ok, 0.12 is out fixing the interlaced problem. :)

@vmesquita great stuff ! thx a lot ! i've just made some short tests but seems to work. quality is fairly acceptable. however, i've got some questions. afais, the 'default' setting is that optimized for kvcd implementations (MencodeMe, PackShot, ... ) what if i wanted to use quite different settings ? so ... - is it necessary to set all parameters in the ini file or is there some embedded defaults ? say, is there a default matrix or should i always set it in the ini file ? - are these the only available parameters or can i add more ? say, i do prefer trellis optimization, is there a way of using/testing it with FreeEnc (or is it disabled) ? - if there's some more options, is there a list of the opts available ? - FreeEnc does not seem to accept bitrate settings strictly, i always got some deviation. is it a well known problem of libavcodec. have u improved this part too or just take it as it is ? - ... :-))) thx again for your efforts y

I had some troubles. It crashed always. Lets see if the new version solved the chrashing problems with PAL movies ... Good work! Go on

@vmesquita thx for the quick reply. weeks (months?) ago i'd made a very thorough test of mencoder. i'm about to brush that up w/FreeEnc. i'm curious what of those findings will work here & what not. hmmm ... i hope i still have the same sources. thx again y

I've happen to download Quenc & FreeEnc. I've notice that both have avcodec.dll Is this is the same? Can I have Quenc & FreeEnc running on the same avcodec.dll? I've run some test and found out that by using Quenc dll file. The video size is bigger & lower quality. Can anyone confirm this?

I compiled my avcodec.dll using the latest CVS, linking only the needed .o (i.e., I didn't include h263 and other unneeded codecs). I don't know how Nic created his and what version he used.

my compile for QuEnc 0.53 is CVS from the 1st of August(my time). i didnt disable any codecs from normal compile. Nics compile from 0.51 is from before that was released(of course) and he said that he uses an old version of gcc(dont know exact version). so basically mine and vmesquita should give similar results while Nics dll may not.

I've problem with crashing too. After it crash once, it keep on crashing whenever I run the program & encode again. I cannot confirm this but the problem goes away after I delete the files in prefetch folders in windows xp.