Thanks for the tip. I know people have had a lot of luck with handbrake as well. These GUI programs are great for simplicity. I believe they are basically just front ends to mencoder, but they hide some of the complexity of it. I wanted to share my actual mencoder settings, as there doesn't seem to be much information about specific h264 settings for the Droid. When you search the web there are a lot of people saying select this or that preset in some GUI program, with no mention of the hundreds of different ways you can encode an h264 video. I guess that is why Dvd Catalyst 3 charges $10!
The real point of my post was to show an automatic way to convert media center recordings to Droid. As the program is recording MCEBuddy automatically extracts an mpg from the .wtv file. As soon as a program finishes recording MCEBuddy kicks off a conversion process. It also can automatically remove commercials (it has settings for comskip and showanalyzer). I can have them backed up on my NAS and automatically sync with my Droid with minimal involvement.
A lot of people seem to be using dvrmstoolbox to do something similar (it handles wtv automatically now), but I haven't tried it.
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