I have attached pre-set files for both H.264 and DivX.
I have experimented a bit with the DivX settings, for audio VBR, ABR and CBR all work OK. The video is pre-set for a good quality DVD transcode at full size.
The only thing I have to change sometimes is the Aspect Ratio in Picture settings, sometimes it works best set to 16:9, and sometimes with no change.
If you want to test it select 30 seconds of your movie in the Time settings and transcode first before doing the whole film!
Using the AVI pre-set I get around 20 fps speed on a 3.2GHz P4.
Let me know how you get on with these...
P.S. Not sure if you can transcode copy protected DVDs using Mediacoder, I normally use DVD Decrypter to get it onto my hard drive first!
To use, copy into a text file and save as <preset name>.xml
File xboxavi.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaCoderPrefs><node key="overall.ui.mode">Advanced</node><node key="overall.ui.expertView">Audio Command</node><node key="overall.ui.optionTab">7</node><node key="overall.ui.param">680,717,92,46</node><node key="overall.task.destdir">C:\Documents and Settings\Kristian\My Documents\My Videos\</node><node key="overall.video.mode">Quality-based</node><node key="overall.video.quality">90</node><node key="overall.video.dar">true</node><node key="overall.video.darw">16</node><node key="overall.video.darh">9</node><node key="overall.video.format">XviD</node><node key="overall.container.format">AVI</node><node key="overall.playback.render">false</node><node key="audioenc.lame.mode">ABR</node><node key="videoenc.xvid.dx50">true</node><node key="audiofilter.resample.samplerate">44100</node><node key="videofilter.frame.enabled">false</node></MediaCoderPrefs>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaCoderPrefs><node key="overall.ui.mode">Advanced</node><node key="overall.ui.expertView">Audio Command</node><node key="overall.ui.param">680,640,352,104</node><node key="overall.task.destdir">C:\Documents and Settings\Kristian\My Documents\My Videos\</node><node key="overall.audio.encoder">Nero Encoder</node><node key="overall.video.mode">Quality-based</node><node key="overall.video.quality">60</node><node key="overall.video.dar">true</node><node key="overall.video.darw">16</node><node key="overall.video.darh">9</node><node key="overall.playback.render">false</node><node key="audioenc.aacplus.type">LC-AAC</node><node key="audioenc.nero.format">LC-AAC</node><node key="audioenc.nero.mode">Target Bitrate</node><node key="audioenc.nero.bitrate">128</node><node key="videofilter.frame.enabled">false</node></MediaCoderPrefs>