tablet-encode is written in Perl, which I don't know and don't like.
Besides, my program is Unix-based and won't work in Windows because it uses shell scripts. Windows users already have that Nokia converter so I don't care about Windows much, besides I simply don't have Windows at home.

Java... I may be biased by Java sucks because it uses its own widget set which has a substantially different look and feel, and because it slowly starts up. C/C++ is simply not the tool for this kind of tasks.

That said, Python was the best choice for me. I looked around, and found no existing programs (in fact, I looked for any video encoders, but did not found tablet-encode - perhaps because when I started TinyAVI I had no internet tablet yet, so I looked at sourceforge and berlios).

P.S. By the way, I'm Andrew too.