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I've been using FAVC since version 1.04. 1.06 works very well in Vista. I like QuEnc and have a dual core processor. FAVC will open a copy of QuEnc for each core for each .avi file. My cores are maxed out, which is a good thing. The automatic menu generation does what you need for episodic menu creation. The default background image makes the menu look pretty awful but if you substitute something with a blue background the menu doesn't look so bad(look for Config.ini file in the Documents subfolder of the FAVC install tree.) The only '9' is due to having to select the output and work folders using the Windows Folder Select Shell Dialog, which is tedious. Again you can look in Config.ini and see how to set it manually. A drag & drop handler for these settings would improve the user experience but I can understand the impulse not to fix something that isn't broken. :)
The only other issue is bitrate spikes. If you set the desired bitrate to a more reasonable level then ending up with a zero length
.ifo file happens rarely. In most cases the Vob set is complete so you can use a tool such as Vob2Mpg to rescue your work and just author manually to get something burnable.
The other feature that may be ignored by the new user is the ability
to check "Don't Start Batch File" on the Advanced Scripting tab. By doing this you can edit the AviSynth scripts. For example, I often
hard sub with idx/sub just by adding a VobSub() line to each .avs script, then manually starting the main batch file.
Very nice software that does video encoding in a hurry esp. if you have a multi-core system.
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