If you need to transcode video files for different media players (iPod, iRiver, or Archos players), you will need a good and fast video transcoder. Recently I tested a free utility called SUPER, and it works superbly.
According to Wikipedia,
SUPER is a closed-source freeware front-end for open-source software video players and encoders provided by the FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, musepack, Monkey’s Audio, True Audio, WavPack, libavcodec, and the Theora/Vorbis RealProducer plugIn projects. SUPER provides a graphical user interface to these back-end programs, which are command-line based.
One caveat: the official site of SUPER is rather confusing and strange, you need to click through a couple of pages before you can download the setup binary file. So read it carefully, otherwise you may click on some other software download pages inadvertently.
Also, it automatically check the updates periodically, if a new version exists, you must download and install it. It may annoy some people.
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