> I use Xing MPEG Encoder. It is quite good and can compress sound too. I don't know
if it's free as it came with my video card. Their site is probably www.xing.com, but
don't quote me on this.
> 
> Peter

I know this is old but I gotta throw this in anyway.
According to the cmpeg documentation, Xing mpeg players can only
read mpegs with nothing but i frames (full frames).  With this, I
would assume that their encoder only encodes i frames.  Since real
mpegs create frames by describing what's changed from other frames
while only occassionally using an i frame, this of course means
that if the Xing encoder only does i frames, it's mpegs will be
larger and less efficient than they could be if encoded using
another program.

I've heard that Smacker can be used to make mpegs (with i, p, and b
frames) with sound, but I could be wrong.  Blizzard's Starcraft
has some text at the bottom of the title screen noting something
about Smacker Video Technology, and the cutscenes in Starcraft are
fairly impressive.

Don't quote me on any of this.  I'm sure I've got one or two
things wrong, and someone who knows this stuff inside and out
will lift me a meter off the ground, smack me a few times, and
tell me what's what.

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