Encoders tested: HCEnc v0.23 QuEnc v0.72 TMPGEnc v2.525 CCE SP v2.7 Canopus Procoder v3.0 Main Concept Reference v1.61 Results: Best: CCE Very good: HCEnc (very close to CCE) Good: Procoder / QuEnc (too bad QuEnc is so slow) Not so good: TMPGEnc / Mainconcept Link: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic367668.html []'s Simps
Thankyou, a lot of work there but I think the choice of encoder's to be a lot to do with personal preference and pretty subjective. For example, I'm pretty fussy about quality and have used MC for year's, close to commercial quality with a good qualiity avi. TMPGenc was good but not as good as MC or Procoder and both TMPGenc and Procoder were incredibly slow here (all at 2 pass VBR), at least 2x or 3x (both had similar time's) that of MC, I don't mind a bit slower but they were both ridiculous; that was some time ago though. CCE setting's page won't even load here and isn't the trial limited to 3 minute's per video, not much time but I do hear it's good and also fast. That said, I think I'll give HCenC a try.
