i use media coder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ very straight forward. install and configure for iPhone transcoding. will create MP4's that iTunes can sync. i have tested with avi, VOB and mpeg and all work and look perfect. when it installs, you get a GUI that has a toolbar. on the top of the tool bar is an icon that looks like a red puzzle piece. When you click on it, it opens another window that has several different pictures of supported platforms. Just click on the iPhone picture and then click on OK. (the box that pops up with the picture of the iPhone you can just 'x' out of) Then start adding your video files.
Just popped in here to find "that other program" being used since Handbrake has a problem encoding some video, it has no problem with DVDs. This program works excellent!
I have "Mad Respect" for this program after this morning. Well maybe just respect. View attachment 1313 Handbrake: With my usual settings. View attachment 1312 MediaEncoder on High Quality everything. I found that increasing the video size or bitrate in Handbrake doesn't make any significant improvements in quality. MediaEncoder's quality is STUNNING. Also notice it did NOT strech the video. I've been fighting with that in Handbrake, even tried anamorphic. In order to encode a DVD you have to choose the proper .ifo on the DVD. Now the bad I need to play with this but the audio is slightly out of sync ): It also takes quite a bit longer than Handbrake on single encode, about equal to 2 pass encoding.
Well.. It's not all bubblegum and candy.. But there is "OpenCandy". While optimizing the program and diagnosing a problem I found MediaEncoder is bundled with some interesting spy/adware ): OpenCandy. It monitors the unistallation of software then recommends software similar to what you just uninstalled. That makes it both adware and spyware. *sigh Tough choice here. I'm going to see about disabling it since the program does work really well.
