[MPlayer-users] Re: Tools for mpeg* to DVD

[rcooley]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:02:38 +0100
Andrew Stevens <andrew.stevens at mnet-online.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> mplex and mpeg2enc author here.... sort of an aside.
> 
> > I would suggest tcmplex over mplex.
> 
> I'm puzzled why anyone would want to use it (apart from already having
> it all set up and ready to go) are there some nasty bugs in mplex I
> don't know about.    

See my other post, in reply to HR.

> It does a reasonable basic job but tcmplex is a
> port of a snapshot of the bbmpeg multiplexer and hasn't really been
> developed for quite a while.   
Still does a better job than mplex.  mplex is too strict, it needs to
be dealt with carefully, and tends to just about have a heart attack if
you give it something as simple as a VBR stream (which tcmplex doesn't
even complain about). 

> You're definately sure out of luck if
> you want more than basic AC3 or MPEG layer II audio muxing.

Why would anyone want it to do anything more than that?  DVDs/SVCD/VCDs
don't support much of anything else.  

Since the MPEG4 standard suggests a MOV container, it doesn't look like
the MPEG file format has much future anyhow.


> I'd like to know where
> the shoe itches for most normal user folk.   Feel free to be rude ;-)

I think I speak for about 90% of the complaintees when I say, it
works well, it's just too slow.  ffmpeg's mpeg2 codec is young, but is
already about 3x faster than mpeg2enc.  It's faster to encode to mpeg4
with mplayer than to encode to mpeg2 with mpeg2enc.