compression issues (1 Viewer)

[stardust]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie here. I've found MediaPortal to be the ultimate MC program around.
I have only one problem with it: the internal compression doesn't seem to work.
compression to MPEG2 works great.
after installing the elcard decoder I have only an option of MPEG2 and WMA in the compression configuration, compression to MPEG2 works great.
but WMA got an error every time I try to compress. and there is no XVID option there.

please can any one help me.
what version of elecard decoder is needed so I can compress with xvid or WMA ?

 

[stardust]

Ok,
Finally I manage to compress with WMA but the quality is not good.
now my question is how can I compress with XVID ?
do I need to install XVID for that ?
why do I need to install elcard MPEG 2 decoder for that ?

 

[Noelix]

Ok,
Finally I manage to compress with WMA but the quality is not good.
now my question is how can I compress with XVID ?
do I need to install XVID for that ?
why do I need to install elcard MPEG 2 decoder for that ?

I'm a bit lazy at the moment to do the searching for you but the answer to your questions are located on the forum in various places. Currently the compression feature is more or less out of date, as the priority to shift development towards the new tv server engine took priority. The new tv server engine records directly to mpeg2, which should help out the compression functionality in the future. To compress to xvid, yes you need to install xvid, that's a given. Yes you need to install the elecard mpeg2 decoder, and no I don't really know why that's required. Be sure to get the right version of it though, not the latest version (it's on the forums somewhere). It does work, I've tried it, but it's only a trial, and after that's up the decoder puts this ugly image on your encodes, so in the end it isn't worth it after all. My suggestion is to convert your files to mpeg-2, and then use VirtualDubMod or VirtualDub to compress to xvid. Good luck!

 

[stardust]

thanks man,
I'll do it.

 

[GSteele]

Compression does work

You need to use the following link to get the right version of Elecard

http://www.kles.tyc.edu.tw/~k_teach/download/EMpgDec20.zip

Good Luck

See thread https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?p=72832#post72832