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MPEG-1 Encoding on OSX – Bottom Line
I’m about to upgrade a G4 to Tiger thus ditching my trusty OS9 / Cleaner 5.1.2 partition. Despite the things I’ve read about Cleaner and MPEG-1, I’ve made hundreds of successful MPEG-1 videos with Cleaner 5.1.2 on OS9.
From what I’ve read in this forum it’s down to Compression Master and Squeeze for MPEG-1 on OSX. My question is: Is there a clear winner? Can anyone say that they are thrilled with the MPEG-1’s they’re getting out of either ap?
Thanks in advance.
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For MPEG-1, you’d probably still be happiest with Cleaner 5.1.2 and OS 9. I’ve never been happy with Squeeze’s MPEG-1 or 2 output, and while almost everything has been greatly improved with Squeeze 4.1 (including MPEG-2 encoding), MPEG-1 is still lacking. With CM, the results have always been decent enough for me, but for the most part, it appears Cleaner 5.1.2 will always be the king.
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I’d check out Main Concept. They have a professional grade encoder for Mac now, and it does fine MPEG-1.
My Book: https://www.benwaggoner.com/books.htm
Squeeze and ProCoder tutorials: https://www.classondemand.net/benwaggoner/
Compression Class at Stanford: https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/compression.html
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