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I have used TMPG 2.5 for a very long time and decided to try out XPress 3.0 when it came out. I was very happy with it for speed and very decent quality. After a few updates it was even able to handle my raw HDTV transport streams! I even bought the AC3 pluggin that works very well because I was so happy with it. The only real flaw I found was that I would have to remux the audio because it would be out of sync after encode. I think its just a matter of an update to have the program compensate for the audio delay. So I would demux the audio before encode and use the cute little delay box they provide to set the delay Example: (-765). It works great! XPress 3.0 doesn't have as many options as TMPGenc 2.5 and isn't as clean an encode but for a good fast encode it is well within reasonable parameters. And when I say fast I mean 3X's faster than 2.5!
But this "comment" is supposed to be about TMPG XPress 4.0. When I decided to upgrade to XPress 4.0 I thought I would see more/faster/better rather than less/slower/worse. 4.0 no longer accepts Raw HDTV transport streams. It crashes every time. A real disappointment. I have tried to contact their technical support on the problem several times and have not received any response. It's been a month and 6 technical support e-mails on the form they provide and to direct e-mails to previous technical support responses. I am sure it is fine with dvd encodes using non-HD sources but that's not the direction I was going...
Either way, I am back to using XPress 3.0 for the "fast" encode and TMPGEnc 2.5 with Virtual Dub and Avisynth if I really want to do it right! |
