Microsoft's Windows Media platform provides near-cable-TV video quality and a large video image. Windows Media uses the Windows Media Encoder, described above, to capture the live video stream.

Remember that it displays 100% of 1 core as 50%.<BR><BR>If the encoder needs to do nonlinear access on the VOB, and it's not creating an index in memory, that could slow it down significantly.

There are several command line switches that allow “silent” operation of the encoder and define the default scripting language. So how robust is this encoding of Windows Script Encoder?

I was trying out windows media encoder and i tried encoding a capture of star trek voyager. I tried twice and both times the encoder stopped encoding and shut off after 5:30 mintues of encoding ...