[GT40FIED]

So I finally broke down and bought one of those cheap burning programs and have been fairly pleased with it. I tried usign Nero (even with the serial Daviso27 gave) and haven't had hardly any luck. Won't even let me enter the damn number...maybe I've gotta wait until the trial period is up. But I've got TMPGenc and AVI 2 VCD and that's worked pretty well for the encoding (AVI 2 VCD is free but takes forever and a f@cking day to convert bigger files...for a roughly 1 1/2 hour file it can take as long as 15 hours or so, taking up 100% of your CPU in the process). TMPGenc works faster and is free for trial use but eventually you need to register it I believe...could be wrong on that. Plus it won't encode a lot of bigger files and is kind of picky about what it will and won't encode. It's great for merge/cutting, though. Personally I've been downloading a bunch of old Mystery Science Theater episodes and encoding them at about 1 a day since TMPGenc won't take them. All in all it's a lot easier than I thought it'd be.