Well.. for what it's worth..

It's IMHO that there should be 2 wiki's. The most basic simple guide like what kathy put together. This should have basic setup instructions for a couple different software for the different OS's (linux, mac, windows) and downloadable importable presets for all that software.

NO codec information, NO bitrates, NO container information.

"Install XYZ, Load this, Hit Rip, Profit."

Then another page more like the Video_Guide we have that lists out the different pages of different software, the different settings, different bitrates.. yadda yadda etc.. for more advanced tuning for those that want to do that.

I do not see any way to merge these two into one wiki document and not scare off the video encoding n00bies out there.

Just MHO.