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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: MPEG encoding problem
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 96 10:19:27
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- Tommy Lee (b4611013@cc.ntu.edu.tw) wrote:
- : Is there any MPEG encoder besides Easy MPEG? It crashes on my machine always.
- : Better free ones. Or anybody tell me how to make my Easy MPEG work properly. Is it
- : incompatible with burst mode or other dos accesories?
-
- I couldn't get EasyMPEG to work either - it didn't crash; it just produced a
- flurry of ARexx errors. EasyMPEG uses mpeg_encode to do the actual encoding:
-
- mpeg_encode.lha gfx/conv 131K 88+MPEG-1 Video Software Encoder (Version 1
-
- This program requires a high stacksize (it seems safe with 200K(!) or so), but
- otherwise works well, if inevitably pretty slowly.
-
- All EasyMPEG attemts to do is provide an easy-to-use GUI for mpeg_encode, but
- with a bit of work you can get it working easily enough as a standalone,
- shell-based program. I have written some AmigaDOS scripts to make it a bit
- easier to use mpeg_encode, but they're not really in a pretty enough state
- to upload to Aminet. If enough people are interested I might clean them up a
- bit and upload them.
-
- There is another MPEG encoder on Aminet:
-
- mpeg_v1.2a.lha gfx/conv 105K 120+Stanford MPEG encoder/decoder v1.2 alpha
-
- I haven't tried this one myself, but it is the one used by the MPEG encoding
- scripts for ImageFX.
-
- One advantage which mpeg_encode has over this one is that it can encode
- animations in GOPs (Groups Of Pictures), so you don't have to have all the
- input frames on disk at once - only those needed for the current GOP. This
- is very useful to me with my tiny (120M) hard disk :/
-
- --Mat.
-