MPEG2 decoder in New TMPGenc registered version

Good news for TMPGenc hard cores (like me).

A new version of TMPGenc was just released that has a
build in MPEG soft decoder. In the past, TMPGenc would
use the Ligos encoder if it was installed. I noticed that
about 20% of the time, the Emuzed capture card would make
files (DVR-MS from MCE or MPEG2 from MovieMill) that
really confused the Ligos decoder. MCE could usually play
them (on my machine it uses the NVDVD codec), but almost
every other program could not. I would see the same thing
from the DVR-MS ripper. I ripped the extended version of
Lord of the Rings playing on Starz, MCE would play the DVR-
MS, but the resulting MPEG2 would crash programs, TMPGenc
would not process it, etc.

However, with the new decoder in TMPGenc -- it works! Not
only is it happy with the MPEG2 that confused Ligos, it
seems to be faster, and it is much better for editting
MPEG2 files in TMPGenc. The Ligos encoder was very poor
at going backwards, and very poor at scrolling through the
MPEG2 files. The new one is much smoother (still slower
backwards than forward, but not too bad).

So, if you are a registered TMPGenc user, get the new
version! If you have been too cheap to license the
regsitered version and have been using the free one, now
is a good time to buy it, as MPEG2 processing is now
officially supported with a built in plug in. Before it
would only work if a few specific codecs were installed
(such as Ligos).

I went to environment settings in TMPGenc to specifically
disable Ligos just to be sure the new codec was being used
(they were at the same priority, and I would assume the
new built in one would be preferred, but I am not sure).

Dave