I love TMPGEnc. My only complaint is that the workflow is not laid out as logically as I'd like. The screen should be larger and have a quick link to the filters on the top. Right now you have to backtrack to make filter changes.

I liked this program a lot, but of course for me it only has one purpose. That purpose is Pal to NTSC. This is rele the only good program that does that conversion.

I cannot fault this program. It's simple to use and efficient. With just a couple of clicks of the mouse you'll be getting your AVI converted to Mpeg.

I have spent the past couple of days looking for a good program to convert AVI to MPeg, and until discovering this one, had almost given up hope.

If you want an uncomplicated AVI conversion, this is for you.

This thing really saved my bacon (once I figured it out!).

The only thing I quibble with about it is the lack of documentation and the interface, otherwise it would be a five stars prog.

I spent DAYS trying to figure out how to properly scale a 16:9 and export a VOB as a lower resolution MPEG for a web page. I tried perhaps 10 different programs.

I had tried and abandoned TMPGEnc, but I eventually went back to it and noticed that you could change the window resolution and PREVIEW the output in one sub page.

Thankfully, in that particular window WYSIWYG... Problem solved! It also allowed adjustment of the audio track, fixing a delay that I wasn't looking forward to trying to find a program what would work to fix that either.

All in all, it's a little kludgy and has poor documentation, but it get's 'er done!

This thing really saved my bacon (once I figured it out!).

The only thing I quibble with about it is the lack of documentation and the interface, otherwise it would be a five stars prog.

I spent DAYS trying to figure out how to properly scale a 16:9 and export a VOB as a lower resolution MPEG for a web page. I tried perhaps 10 different programs.

I had tried and abandoned TMPGEnc, but I eventually went back to it and noticed that you could change the window resolution and PREVIEW the output in one sub page.

Thankfully, in that particular window WYSIWYG... Problem solved! It also allowed adjustment of the audio track, fixing a delay that I wasn't looking forward to trying to find a program what would work to fix that either.

All in all, it's a little kludgy and has poor documentation, but it get's 'er done!

Absolutely outstanding software. This is the real deal for those looking to encode MPEG from .AVI for the web and get reliable results WITH cropping function that doesn't MASK, but actually ELIMINATES lettrboxing. A life saver!

I have well over 40 avi files and none of them worked.

When attempting to open the file I get an ERROR saying it is unsupported.

wtf? is this a bug? POOR PROGRAM OVERALL!

thanks

i downloaded this software and tried to open one of my .avi movies with it, but an error occured saying that it was either "unable to open or unsupported". I tried another .mpg file and it worked fine. Any advice?

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I used this software for a year or more before I bought a DVD burner I was able to back up many many of my movies to VCD, you who have had problems are doin' somethin wrong.

Check out Sefies guides they are great.

Basically you Rip, Frameserve, encode and burn.

Yes the encoding is dependant on your CPU and as such with an AMD 2.6 takes around 1.5 hours, with a Celeron 900 around 6 hours, I know I have used both.

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AVI to MPG 1st DUMBASS!

Seems like this is the only free software in town. Pitty, since it doesn't work. I've tried converting many AVI's to DVD using the afterdawn guide, however, I've yet to get audio to convert correctly. On one DVD I actually got sound, but it somehow ended up at the wrong rate. For all of my other attempts there has been no audio on the final DVD.

I tried one of the commercial packages, boilersoft AVI to DVD's unregistered version as a substitute and it worked great. Only you have to actually register to copy without the banner. Last thing I want is my name in a companies database when they decide to hand it over to the movie industry to track down potential video pirates.

The one free route that would work would be to encode the audio with the boilersoft product, and the video with TMPGen. However, that brings me to the other problem with TMPGen. It is horribly slow. It would probably take me two days to author a single DVD.

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