Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy. This forum is not for asking programming related questions.
I've tried out AutoGK and StaxRip so far. AutoGK is workable, but it has abysmal support for batch jobs. StaxRip, theoretically speaking should be a bit better, but after downloading a boatload of dependencies, it still complains that I have the wrong version of MKVToolnix (I reinstalled it three times) and combusts spectacularly when I try to do anything with it. At this point, I'm not looking forward into some heavy duty googling to get Stax working. I have approximately 50 small thirty second to one minute clips that I need to compress.
There are a number of unofficial frontends for mencoder, but no "official" one. That's not very encouraging. I'm currently trying out a number of them, will report back results.
Gah! ::Tearing hair out:: iriverter works but it resizes the video and is specifically for portable video devices. The rest of them are for DVD ripping. I took another whack at StaxRip and it combusted again. Tried mencoder but I keep getting errors.