'Your "help" was not helpful and not appreciated.'

Haha, check you out! Got your knick knacks in a twist then.

Anyway, your approach seems rather long winded and massively unnecessary.

I encoded a 1080p Up trailer in handbrake, using the preset described on the encoding wiki, and it looks, and sounds, absolutely unbelievable. HD quality, better then the included 9 trailer. Showed to some customers today and they were blown away.

Handbrake is a very good tool for easy encoding. because its easy, don't be fooled into thinking it doesn't give you as good results as all the fannying around you did with vid and audio.

And, as usual, a screen that small can only show so much detail. Any standard AVI can 'pop' on that little screen. An episode of Lost, with the vibrant greens and blues, can look breathtaking, even as a 'standard' file.