mencoder comp. that supports threading & ipod headers?

[other]

I'm looking for a precompiled version of mencoder that supports ipod headers (via mencoder 'format' option) and x.264 multithreading (threads=auto).

I've used the official version:

http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc2.zip

which threads great but apparently doesn't support 'format=ipod' (mencoder option).

I'm torn between the dichotomy of figuring out how to compile the latest subversion myself (would take a long time as I'm a pedestrian programmer at best) and trusting a compilation from an unknown source (I'm also paranoid).

I figured that this would be best place to get recommendations... even though it's only 50% MPEG-4 AVC question at best.

thanks, brett

[Dark Shikari]

Tried just using a Windows GUI built for the task, like MeGUI, Handbrake, etc?

[other]

Hoping to use plain old command line mencoder. May sound stupid, (probably does) but I'm trying to use this as a learning experience.

Already have MeGUI installed... I suppose I could just experiment with that but I'm planning on writing a simple transcoding program (w/ python most likely) that doesn't overwhelm with options. For that I'll need a compiled version of mplayer/mencoder that includes the options that I hope to support...

[Sagekilla]

If you'd like to stick to the plain old CLI, you can do what I do when you need iPod support: Use x264 + Avisynth to encode the video, BeSweet or any other number of audio applications to transcode the audio, and mp4box which can mux to a ipod compatible mp4 file.

[45tripp]

try
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php