http://www.cccp-project.net/

...check out the Wiki and you'll see what I mean ;)


ANYWAY, yeah toons/anime compresses nice and good hey ;) and yeah the blocking-in-the-dark is always an issue when trying to get a good compression, but it was really obvious on GOMEncoder for some reason :S apart from that, it created fully compliant Main@L3 AVC videos very similar to the TMPGEnc output :)

That's a very good encoding speed too. VERY good compared to me. My encoding speed on this piece of poo poo is about  x1.8 movie length lol. But im encoding at 640x480, I've noticed that lower resolutions [eg 480x272] encode much faster than I expected. But AVC is a very complex codec you got to remember, it's the "sequal" to the DivX/XviD/3vix/etcetera formats [see this article] and NOBODY has anywhere near good enough encoding speed, im surprised you got close to x1.0!!!!

Subtitles? To burn in subtitles in TMPGEnc, you have to
1) Click on "Edit" under source tab for the video clip in the list u want subs for
2) "Filters" tab
3) For somereason the subtitle filter isn't in the list. As if! Bottom left corner, "Edit Filter List" and the Subtitles one should be on the right - select it and press Add then OK.
4) Now it should be in the list. Tick 'Enable' in there. Down the bottom right, "Edit Menu" > "Import subtitles" and in the browse dialog you can change the filetype to ".SRT" files :) I hope that's the right format!!! If you need a subtitle converter there are plenty online but lemme kno if u can't find one. I think VOBSub can convert between SRT and others....? Dunno

Anyway I might share some of my saved profiles soon hey [as templates for tmpgenc4], but I will also try the settings you tried there! Still testing though :P Cheers :)