On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Hitoshi Doi wrote:
> If I do complete TV episodes, I will probably drop down to VCD level.
> But for short seiyuu clips, I want to stay as high as possible.

Then you don't want to use a hardware encoder. Software ones do much
better. You can get better quality than this hardware encoder, with lower
bitrate.

> The mpeg I made plays back in mpeg_play (without sound though),
> on Solaris (both SPARC and Intel).

mpeg_play is very unoptimized.

Try mpegtv.
http://www.mpegtv.com/download.html

> | What MPEG encoder box is this?
> By I/O Data (Japanese company).  It might be an OEM of some
> other company.  I'm not sure.

This thing?
http://www.iodata.co.jp/products/video/mpgbox.htm

-Dan