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Yeah, Handbrake is a bit slow it seems. It does have the benefit of being free though. Xilisoft has costs associated with it, but I find it so easy to use and encoding is pretty quick.

One of the things I like best about Handbrake is that while it's slow it's also not system intensive. So, I can have a video getting reworked even while editing another video without bogging things down.