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This little app can be used to encode from avi or an Avisynth Script file to a MPEG1(VCD) or MPEG2(SVCD, DVD) video stream and AC3 or MP2 audio stream.
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Free software  Win  Released: Size:1.32MB |
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Latest version: 0.72 (January 25, 2007) Download sites: Download (direct link) More download options: Supported operating systems: Windows
More information and other downloads: Download KuuEss and EncSchedGui here - QueEnc batch processing tools. Sections/Browse similar tools: Video Encoders / Converters, Video Encoders (MPG/DVD) |
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User options: Email me when it has been updated Report this tool (dead link/new version) Version history:
QuEnc 0.72 Hide changelog ---------- .fixed separate not working with -close .changed will not encode pulldown when interlaced disabled but pulldown enabled .small tweak to 2 pass ratecontrol changes from 0.70 to 0.71 ------------------------- - added 448kbps for audio encoding - changed CLI parameter error message to timed(4 seconds), compatability with older programs - added settings, changlog and PSP-IPod texts - restricted MP2 and MP3 to encode to a maximum of 256kbps even if set higher - small 2 pass ratecontrol tweaks changes from 0.61 to 0.70 ------------------------- .improved 1 pass ratecontrol .improved 2 pass ratecontrol .improved ac3 encoding low volume problem .fixed last frames at constant quant .fixed if max bitrate higher than target bitrate .fixed 24fps video encoding .changed ac3 downmix levels to -3dB and dialnorm to -27dB (Dolbys reccomended settings) .changed mpeg2mux(cli option) to automatically sets QuEnc to mpeg2 mode .changed extreme setting to not use trellis, tick manually if you want that aswell .changed other extreme settings .changed auto max bitrate to x2 if over 3000kbps .added mpeg1mux cli option ,automatically sets QuEnc to mpeg1 mode .added mpeg4mux cli option ,automatically sets QuEnc to mpeg4 mode .added pulldown option(must use interlaced encoding) .added mpeg4 video mode(specifically PSP profile compatible) .added aac audio encoding with mpeg4 mode .added mp3 audio encoding with mpeg4 and snow modes .added audiocodec cli options aac and mp3 for mpeg4 mode .added separate mux option to mpeg2 encoding and mpeg2mux(cli) .added source properties detection to some better display options .removed -mpeg1 and -mpeg2 cli options, use their mux options instead .increase mpeg1 buffer size to 224 if max bitrate over 1800kbps or constant quant .increased buffer size to 392 if max bitrate over 9800kbps(DVD max) .exposed snow mode (not reccomended for anything but experimentation) 22.05.05 Just released 0.61! Has a bug fix for the MPEG-1 System Mux 22.05.05 QuEnc 0.60 Released! Changes: New XviD Ratecontrol in 2 Pass mode! Added a MPEG-1 System mux mode Can apply pulldown to the encode Bug fixing...More stable (for use in more than one instance of QuEnc, etc) Tooltips A bunch of other stuff I'm too ill to remember ;) 13.04.05 QuEnc 0.59 BETA 4 Update Changes: * Tweaked Rate Control * Fix for bad MPEG-1 files ending up with no Aspect Ratio 07.04.05 QuEnc 0.59 BETA 3 Update Changes: * Better stability (In theory) * Always encodes the selected AR for MPEG-2 * Can now automatically do two passes to create both a separate audio and video file * Now creates Muxed MPEG files with compliant PTS/DTS/SCR Values * Has updated DragonGodz QLB 1.2 Matrix * Has new mini DVD Authoring Mode * Fixed irritating bug when doing a 2pass low frame count and low bitrate encode (again!) * General fixes for things like audio encoding, etc 18.01.05 QuEnc 0.59 Beta 2 Update Minor update with B-Frame Encoding 17.01.05 QuEnc 0.59 Beta Update Basis of a release candidate for QuEnc 0.6 Stable Changes: B-Frame strategy should always produce uniform B-Frame placement Fixed mono audio encoding When GOP=0 means GOP size will be infinitely large Now has encode only audio or video options Fixed last frame not encoding when using B-Frames Added -silent option (loads QuEnc minimized) "Extreme" Settings don't automatically turn on Trellis QuEnc 0.59 Alpha *(Added a "I" Information button so you can get info on the input file) *(TFF Bug Fix, Only Accepts YV12 Colorspace as Input Fix) QuEnc 0.57 Alpha * Has the latest CVS (should be improved DVD/SVCD/VCD Muxing) * Added a No Mux feature for people that just want to encode the video from an AVI. * Hidden SNOW Codec Mode QuEnc 0.56 [Alpha] * Now has Audio Encoding support! It can encode to raw mp2/ac3 * Can mux and encode at the same time! Can now encode video and audio from an AVS into a SVCD or DVD compatible MPG file, or into a VCD compatible MPEG-1 System file. * Can automatically create an AVS for AVI or WAV files, so it can load them directly, "as is" for encoding. * Uses Quant 2 for 1st pass encoding, for a mild boost to 2 pass encoding quality * Can now do Constant Quantizer encoding, just use a bitrate of 31 or less and it will encode using that quantizer. * Bugfixes 0.54 changes .aspect ratio should be working properly now .bad parameter window tells you what the bad one was now .version of exe changed to 0,0,5,4 so jdobbs can pick it in DVD-RB .dll version is cvs 12th july as reccomended over 0.49pre1, found on ffmpeg homepage 0.53 changes .properly replace notch matrix. .minor tweaks. 0.52 changes .some more tweaking to settings. .added pass text on main window. .notch matrix completely replaced by QLB(Quenc Lower Bitrate) matrix. .the kvcd cli commands replaced with QLB ones. 0.51 Changes: dc option now works correctly (doh! 1000l at Micheal would say) Added missing commandline options (maxbitrate priority) Turning off Scene Detection also now enforces strict GOP structure (to help with ABond's problem ) Also raised threshold hack to remove Could Not Open Video Codec error. QuEnc 0.50 Now can be paused by pressing the pause key on the keyboard 60000/1001 is now supported as a fps Now strictly complys to the LGPL QuEnc 0.49 Hack to stop the "Could not open Video Codec". It now doesn't allow MPEG-2 video to be done with a two pass, when the bitrate is under 200 kbps. Instead it does a one pass. This hack will suffice until a better fix can be made. Now can set vbr and hq from the commandline options (use QuEnc /? ) for help Now has process priority QuEnc 0.47 Fixed: Not encoding the correct number of frames when using B-Frames. QuEnc 0.46 Now has "extreme" options, mainly for my own testing, but should provide quality over speed New Command line options for turning options off as well as on ( view with QuEnc /? ) Now "should" have interlaced encoding for encoding interlaced material. Now "should" have better bitrate control...hopefully it won't have huge undersize/oversize problems.
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The 0.75 alpha version can be found in the latest stable AVStoDVD in the QuEnc folder. It adds multi-threading. I've found this an excellent tool for converting HD resolution mkv to standard DVD9. Once you have used AVStoDVD to set things up, QuEnc may be utilized on its own just by making a link to the exe in the AVStoDVD QuEnc folder. To get proper resize info when sizing down to standard DVD I recommend another old tool, FitCD. I simply change the LanczosResize line produced by FitCD to BilinearResize since I'm sizing down. If FitCD DVD output is set to NTSC 16x9 anamorphic then the resize and border info should produce the correct aspect ratio in the DVD output. The multi-threading combined with one pass CBR at a high bit rate(typically 8500 kbit for a movie 2 hours or less) results in high quality video .m2v file in a short amount of time. Once you have the .m2v file, apply pulldown if needed, then just use the original audio(if it's ac3 as example) from the .mkv file to author a DVD9 ready to burn with Imgburn. I typically get over 40 fps using this version of QuEnc on an AMD 5200+ dual core PC. The strange thing is I find shrinking the DVD9 to DVD5 using DVD Shrink or ReJig rivals a 2 pass encoding using HC encode for DVD5. The HC may look a bit better using Best profile, but at a cost of more than double the processing time. I use many apps that use HC and use it with avs scripts via the HCgui, so I'm not rapping HC. It's just that if you are willing to encode to 8500 CBR DVD9 a 120 minute or less film can look awfully good awfully quick using this QuEnc alpha. I hope the author pics up QuEnc development again because it's a very nice tool.
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The Author DVD feature in the Advanced Options (small experimental Authoring App) of this program is great. It converts mpg file into dvd files - no menu and no chapters, just a simple dvd. It does the job well and fast. I've been searching for another simple dvd authoring program that I can use, until I got to know this feature of QuEnc from a post in one of the forums here. Kudos to the author of QuEnc.
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This little app gets 10's across the board! Faster than TMPGEnc with same (or even better?) quality! QuEnc encodes look superb on my standalones. A simple one-line AviSynth script is enough to get started; the more the merrier. I do have to reiterate same issue about bitrate as others have posted. With 5000 kbps setting, resulting MPG file showed over 10,000 kbps including audio in GSpot. If your set-top player can handle, than no worries.
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I have used this tool extensively with Cuttermaran and to downsize mpeg2 video from 5000 720x480 to 3000 352x480 in order to fit 6 30 minute shows on one DVD. This tool is horrible. The output is just terrible. Every 10 to 20 frames has about 4 to 8 frames of very blocky images, even using 5000kbits/s. These you can clearly see while running. When I use this to augment Cuttermaran so I can cut on B and P frames, even in 2 pass mode in extreme mode, the output is all blocky. This tool is entirely useless because it cannot encode with any kind of quality. If you need a software encoder, this is not it.
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I have used this tool. The output mpeg2 file plays well and reports correct time. However when I use Video only it gave a time of less than a third of the correct value. The Audio only output reports correctly.
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My AVIs encoded using HuffYUV and Lagarith always come out at 25 MBit MPEG2s and my multiplexers fall over.
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This is a great tool that produces very good quality mpegs. My only gripe is that it does not respect the Max Bitrate. This is only a problem for playback on some DVD players (mine doesn't mind - my brother's chokes). I'm hoping that a new revision fixes this (eagerly waiting for a new revision - Nic?).
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i dont know if any one has noticed that u can now input avi files in this program now i tried a divx file and a xvid file and they both worked! however u have to make sure that the input file complies with the output u want but i still use avisynth great tool
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This could be better if it include a calculator like XviD.
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There shoud be a feature like "Demux Encode", so that in the end, we have the video and audio streams separately. THANKS!
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Excellent tool! Faster and (imo) better quality than my old favourite TMPGEnc. Using mostly for interlaced PAL DV source. Only problem - does not keep the max bitrate. What good is a pristine picture quality if your standalone will choke on the stream? A workaround has been to choose ridiculously low max bitrate and keep my fingers crossed. NuEnc seems to be better in this aspect, but it's hard to make up my mind about it since nobody seems to be commenting on it. And the use of avisynth script as input is only natural, when one needs to process the video before encoding there is no better tool. I would actually never use a video conversion tool that couldn't open avisynth scripts!
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I tried this encoder on a lark and I am really surprised at what a good job it does. I encoded some home movies from my DV cam and I think the end result looked just as good as my old standby Tmpgenc. Thumbs up on this piece of freeware.
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This is great for a free MPEG2 encoder! From my experience it encodes interlaced video much better than TMPGEnc - an encoder that costs $50! QuEnc's still in it's early stages, but it can only get better. If there were a few more options, built-in MP2 encoding and batch encoding it would we perfect! One note for video newbies though - you'll need to know how to use AviSynth scripts to make inputs for this.
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just superb! And you don't need to know much about Avisynth to get this thingy to work, just some of the basic, that's all, and I think the quality is great!
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This encode will be great if it can open avi files directly.
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