This guide uses only open-source software. You will not be asked to download some 30-day shareware trial. These programs here are very useful and versatile. You may find them useful in your future video-encoding careers.
MeGUI
MeGUI is the cool GUI to encode video. It will update itself (grab all the presets it offers) and ask you to install AviSynth (which is required).
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=156112
AviSynth
AviSynth is an uber-flexible scripted frameserver for post-pro proc. MeGUI needs it. I got version 2.5 stable.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=57023
YAMB
A GUI for MP4Box. MP4Box is the program we will use to mux the audio and video into MP4. MeGUI might be able to do this itself, but I don't trust myself to experiment. Regardless, the file that MP4Box produced was playable by QT and that makes it all right in my books.
http://yamb.unite-video.com/download.html