Whch MPEG-2 encoder is being used?

[Aloke Prasad]

This is about how one can determine which (of many) software codec is being
used by Windows.

I have ATI Radeon 9800 All-in-wonder card (MMC 9.03) which includes a tuner
that captures video (from cable-tv, in my case). The file format I chose is
MPEG-2 (720x480, NTSC, 8 MB/s, audio 48 KHz, 16 bit stereo). There may be
encoders from other software on the system, like Roxio EZMedia Creator, that
has a DVD authoring component, codecs installed by XPPro, Media Player, etc.

In any case, I used to get excellent MPEG-2 captures, which played well in
all mediaplayers.

Until I installed Adobe Premiere Elements. That must have installed it's
own MPEG encoder, because now I get files captured that pause, look jerky,
are difficult to fast forward through, and not as good visually.

Question: How do I determine which MPEG-2 encoder is being used ?

Question: Is there a way to specify which encoder gets used by default in
XP?

Thanks.

 

[Chuck U. Farley]

I recognize your nym from the cdr ng many years ago, at least I think it was
there, so I'll try to help you out. Anyway...

Question: How do I determine which MPEG-2 encoder is being used ?
Question: Is there a way to specify which encoder gets used by default in
XP?

gspot, found here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm

When using MMC, you determine which codec you're using when you capture from
that app. You access this info from the TV setup/Personal Video Recorder
tab.

I kinda doubt a codec installed by Adobe is causing your playback problems.
Have you defragged your drive since you installed Premier Elements?

 

[Nobody_of_Consequence]

I recognize your nym from the cdr ng many years ago, at least I think it
was
there, so I'll try to help you out. Anyway...


gspot, found here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm

When using MMC, you determine which codec you're using when you capture
from
that app. You access this info from the TV setup/Personal Video Recorder
tab.

I kinda doubt a codec installed by Adobe is causing your playback
problems.
Have you defragged your drive since you installed Premier Elements?

Adobe probably installed Mainconcepts encoder and decoder, which is causing
your playback problems.

YF

 

[Aloke Prasad]

I recognize your nym from the cdr ng many years ago, at least I think it
was
there, so I'll try to help you out. Anyway...


gspot, found here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm

When using MMC, you determine which codec you're using when you capture
from
that app. You access this info from the TV setup/Personal Video Recorder
tab.

I looked there, but that seems to let you change the codec say from ATI-VCR
to MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 etc. It doesn't let you pick which of the many MPEG-2
compressors I have (ATI, Roxio, Mainconcepts, etc).

I fixed the playback problem by buying (and installing) the WMP_10 plugin
for MPEG-2 playback by Cyberlink (makers of PowerDVD and the one supplied by
ATI).

MS has a utility to list the MPEG-2 codecs and select the default codec used
by WMP.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en

Overview
The Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility helps you determine if an
MPEG-2 video decoder (also called a DVD decoder) is installed on your
Windows XP computer and whether or not the decoder is compatible with
Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

I still don't know who to force ATI to use a particular codec for MPEG-2..