Readme
0.Requirements
1.Introduction
1.1 What this program
does?
The
FlasK MPEG Encoder takes MPEG2 and MPEG1 program and video streams and
encodes them into a valid MPEG1 stream trying to achieve the maximum possible
quality and trying to minimize the conversion impact providing a straightfordward
aproach to the MPEG2 to MPEG1 conversion.
1.2 How do you achieve
High Quality Conversion? How does it work?
A common problem when
converting one video format in another is that the source and destination
frame sizes doesn't match. Then you have to resize the source into the
destination size using somekind of video interpolation. In many cases this
process is very rude and introduces a lot or artifacts and aliasing.
The FlasK MPEG plugs
the MPEG2 decoder output right into its HQ internal resizing motor and
outputs that to the MPEG1 encoder giving thus high quality conversions
hard to achieve with other methods.
The MPEG2/MPEG1 decoder
is based on the MSSG (Mpeg Software Simulation Group) work an thus is seamlessly
embedded into Flask MPEG. As you sure know, the MPEG video standard is
asimetrical, that is, while the decoder is perfectly defined by the standard
the encoder process is left for people to implement. That makes possible
fthat MPEG encoders improve over time.
One of such encoders
that has achieved quite a buzz lately is the encoder by Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co.,Ltd. It offers an excellent quality with little blockiness
for the usual MPEG1 bitrates.
FlasK MPEG uses the
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd. encoding engine to encode the video
streams using the Adobe Premiere Plugin released by Panasonic.
2.Installation instructions
In order to install
FlasK MPEG encoder you must own a copy of the Panasonic MPEG1 Encoder Plug-In
for Adobe Premiere5.x. You don't have to have Premiere to install the plugin
and use it.
1.- Create a folder
for the program and place the program inside that folder.
2.- Install the Panasonic
plugin and write down the place where the plugin will lay in. The installation
program will ask for it, and if you have Premiere installed it will point
to the Premiere plugin directory, if not you have to tell the installer
the folder you want to place the plugin.
3.- Once the installer
is over, you have to copy the plugin into the FlasKMPEG.exe folder. The
original name of the plugin should be something like "cm-mpeg-pwi2.0e.prm"
although this may vary between versions.
4.-If you've successfully
found and copied the plugin into FlasK MPEG folder you have to rename it
to:
FlasKMPEGpeasopeich.dll
If you don't do that the program wont work
5.-That's it, the program should run now without a problem
*WARNING*
The original package of FlasK MPEG encoder doesn't include the Panasonic
plugin because it is a commercial product. If you received a package with
the plugin included you're not dealing with the original distribution.
3.-
FAQ
3.1 What are the difference between the various resizing filter types?
Basically they offer different types of quality and speed settings. I need
your help to improve this section of the FAQ, so please, do some testing
and send me back the results.
3.2 Hey Boy. This program is painfully slooow. Is it normal?
It is :-( This program is provided as grijjanderlware, that is, you don't
pay for its use, so everything that is inside is also free. Although the
MSSG decoder offers excellent quality it is terribly slow and this is the
very first version of the program (0.02) so expect some speed improvements
in the next versions.
3.3 It's nice. It seems that this apps can just do video. What happens
with the audio?
Precisely, this program just process the video. You can handle the audio
apart demuxing the orignal program stream and muxing it again with the
ouput from the FlasK MPEG encoder. There are a lot muxers and demuxers
out there.
3.4 This FAQ is quite pathethic, don't you think so?
It is. It will be improved in next versions.
4. Agreements
To Mr. Avery Lee ,
creator or VirtualDub for that incredible app, and for his help with the
resizing stuff.
To DVD2MPG creator
for his help with the premiere plugin stuff.
5. Contact Info
For suggestions and
bugs reach me at:
ultraflask@yahoo.com
Please! don't mail
me asking dumb questions such as 'my DVD-ROM isn't responding' or just
a line with a 'It doesn't work' .