Anyone used that Flash MPEG program to endcode a DVD?

[ctowle]

I was just reading the article about this program over at Tom's HW and was wondering if anyone has used it and with what type of success/failure?

Here is a link to the site

FlashMPEG Site

Thanks for the advice.

 

[Stringy]

Figured I bump this up a bit, I'm interested in this as well...
I have a P3 that'll do close to a Ghz and am looking at a DVD drive, this
Program would be the perfect companion....

the only thing Tom didn't mention or discuss is, if Video cards like an ATi (which
has Full MPEG2 decompression routines) have any effect on the Playback or the
encoding of the MPEG4/DivX....


Craig

 

[pdo]

This is the only programs that I've use to ripped DVD's. It usually takes me about 5-6 hours on a PIII-750MHz to do a movies. I seen some people say that they have problem getting audio and video to sync, but I have never have such problems. On DVD's that are not encrypted like adult movies I just ripped straight from DVD to Divx. This is the easiest program to use out there. If you want some walk through head over to digital digest they have some walkthrough by Nicki which is excellent.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

I simply want to know the quality. If i put the Matrix on two identical monitors, one running DVD (mpeg2) and the other running Mpeg 4, how much of a difference will be seen, and is it distracting? Where do the defects come - color dedragation, tearing, loss of detail?

 

[pdo]

Now if I were to ripped using 3 CD's which equals to about 2 gigs. You couldn't even tell the diffence between the 2. But I movies are usually ripped to about 695 which will fit on one 80 minutes disc. I looks excellent using Matrox TV-Output, but the pictures tend to break a little bit on fast action scene. Keep in mind that I'm no expert on this guys.

 

[ctowle]

Here is a stupid question: Do I necessarily have to have a DVD player to use this program?

 

[Stringy]

Sephiroth_IX
here is a Link to a comparison on the Digital Digest link Paldo provided...

ctowle Yes you'll need a DVD drive in order to read the DVD disc... unless you have some other means of importing the DVD into the PC... like a TV card and Set top DVDplayer..


Craig

 

[ctowle]

Thanks. That is the bad news I was expecting....

 

[GL]

Seph

You can tell the difference. The DVD video seems much more crisp, especially under very heavy action scenes where the divx codec just seems to suck. Those picture stills provided above tell only half the story. Compare a couple of videos side by side and you'll notice the difference. Of course, the quality of divx isn't bad, it's just not as good as DVD.

-GL

 

[LocutusX]

What GL said pretty much hits the hammer on the nail. Errr.. the other way around.

Anyways there are actually two different DivX codecs; low-motion and fast-motion. The fast motion is absolutely horrible at everything, including fast-motion scenes. The low-motion is generally decent for fast-motion scenes, and wonderful for low-motion scenes, as long as you don't resize from native resolution (704x480 or something), and use at least 700kbps bitrate.

And with the latest version of Flask, you will most likely get audio and video out of sync if you are encoding audio to MP3. If you are encoding Audio to PCM Wave format, it's generally okay. But then you have to mess around with VirtualDub after that, to compress the audio to WMA or MP3, since PCM Wave is ridiculously bloated (130KB/sec or something like that). Anyways, messing around with DVD ripping and DivX encoding can really take up lots of your hard drive space, I'll give you that much.


BTW: So far I don't know of any way you can use those various hardware accelerators (such as Hollywood+, or the motion-compensation features on GeForce and other chips) to accelerate DivX/MS MPEG-4.... it just isn't possible. MPEG-2 is not equal to MPEG-4.