MPEG-2 quality

[grokwik]

There is a lot of MPEG-2 encoders (free and commercial)
CCE is known as "the best" one in general.
Can someone tell me the main adantages and disadvantages of popular MPEG-2 encoders (speed, problems on certain kind of source, etc...) ?

[guada 2]

Firstly,look at this:
http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?forumid=37

Good reading :)