Dan wrote:
| 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.

Software encoders require some "real" CPU power, which I don't have. (^_^;
Also whenever I do something with software encoders, things go out
of sync (maybe because of lack of CPU).

One thing I like about this hardware one.. it's easy to use.

| > 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

I hope it has been updated recently.
When I tried this last year with various VCDs it core dumped. (^_^;

| > | 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

That box only does video.
The one I used is

http://www.iodata.co.jp/products/video/mpgboxp.htm

It connects with the parellel port.  There is a USB version, but that
costs more..  (but then I would be able to use it on my libretto.)

It comes with Ulead VideoStudio 3.0SE.
Is this any good?
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