I just got my hands on a copy of DVDit PE 2.1, and was severely dissapoined at how limited the program is. What is more concerting is that the encoder in the program takes days even weeks to encode ...

Ok. I have an SVCD i turned into an MPEG with VCDGear. The quality is great, however whoever encoded the movie originally put a black box around the video. Not just letterboxing on top and bottom, but ...