Software Advice Needed

[andrewducker]

I'm currently converting a bunch of files to MPEG, so my MVP will play them.  However, while the software I have (MainConcept MPEG Encoder) works fine, it doesn't batch things well - I have to queue up each file rather than pointing at a whole folder at once.

Anyone got any recommendations (Windows-based, obviously)

Comments

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it'll do the trick, but I think you might have success with tmpegenc.

lproven recommended

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

dpPowerAmp music converter, and I like it a lot.

I also use iTunes to rip to MP3 (yes, on my Windows XP PC)

That's about the limit of useful comments I can make.

Re: lproven recommended

[andrewducker]

dbpoweramp music converter does MPEGs???

Yes

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

For the older versions they had instructions of where to go to download a LAME encoder (for licensing reasons), for the newer versions I believe you need to register the powerpack (or something like that) which includes the MP3 encoder. Certainly the version I have on this PC allows me to convert and to specify upto 320kbps at 48khz sampling (or so the dialog box would have me believe) with a choice of mono, stereo, joint stereo, dual channel or [as source].

You do mean MP3s when you say MPEG don't you, or were you thinking of something else and I've misunderstood?

oh, and batching ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... dpbpoweramp mc seems to do batches beautifully. You can select multiple files, specify a new destination directory and rename files during the conversion.

Re: Yes

[andrewducker]

You do mean MP3s when you say MPEG don't you, or were you thinking of something else and I've misunderstood?

Indeedy. I meant actual MPEG video files...

But actually that was useful for encoding MP3s, which _is_ something that happens on a semi-regular basis too....