MPEG 1 and Squeeze

[Brian Klein]

From Charles Simonson: I really do think your issues could be solved with either Compression Master (very good MPEG-1) or MainConcept (if you look at my many previous posts, you will see that Squeeze does license the Mainconcept encoder in their app but does a terrible job implementing it).

Brian Klein: I don’t doubt that Compression Master or MainConcept would be a better route. Unfortunately, I do not have these programs, and I do not plan on doing much, if any MPEG 1 in the future… not that it would be bad to have Compression Master as another tool. So what is wrong with the way Squeeze implements the MainConcept encoder?

I really do not think the issues I was having had to do with interlacing or deinterlacing. It’s hard to describe what the compression artifacts look like through these posts. I could post a movie somewhere of pre and post movies to prove it. I thought maybe there might be some weird QT bug in the release I had… it seems these kind of issues pop up now and again.

Thanks to all for all the thoughts and advice!

[Charles Simonson]

Brian Klein wrote:So what is wrong with the way Squeeze implements the MainConcept encoder?
Technically, that is a question for Sorenson to answer. All I can tell you is that if you were to encode the same source with as comparable settings as you can get between the two apps, the one encoded by MainConcept would look better almost 100% of the time. And this has nothing to do with deinterlacing, this is just a subjective comment from the core encoding capabilities of each.