Is there anything new I should look at to enhance tablet-encode with?

I'm biased, but it seems a shame to invest effort in creating a new mencoder wrapper when we have Java ones, Windows ones and cross-platform ones already - and, of course, Nokia's Internet Tablet Video Converter.

I don't want to sound like a curmudgeon, or suggest that you might not have some whizzy new idea, but surely one of those projects could have been a base on which to accept some patches? Certainly, your goals sound exactly the same as tablet-encode's!

FWIW, RST38h has also been helping with some thoughts on how to improve the GUI. Two mockups from Pencil, based on his suggestions:



There'll also be a "lightning session" on tablet-encode at the Maemo Summit to try and increase the number of users and developers.