Battleangel

Never been much for encoding digital video myself. Mostly because it’s time consuming (CPU intensive) and difficult. At least if you want some sort of control and wont settle for anything less than XVID for the video stream. I’m not usually deterred by manuals but getting the hang of XVID, OGG, Matroska, VobSub and AC3 has been a problem so far.

The real problem however is that there is no one program that can do the entire encoding process internally (as far as I know). The best one can hope for is frontends such as SimpleDivX. My reason for bothering with this is that I have accumulated a number of dvd images on disk. And that is space that I cannot spare, also I am not willing to store them as DVD mpeg2. I’d much rather have them in high quality XVID, compressed to maybe a third of that size. Saves me a bunch of dvd discs.

Are there any other tools out there that can do the same thing? AutoGordianKnot perhaps. But I never found it to be quite as easy.