ZenCoder: A Video Encoding software for the Creative Zen 28 August, 2008
Few days ago was girlfriend’s 22th birthday, and I gave her a Creative Zen with video support… to let her be able to cross the world watching her favorites cartoons and youtube videos! 
During last nights I worked hard (yeah it was my first GUI ever, and first attempt with Gtk#) to give them another gift (it is a surprise), and now something is working: ZenCoder is ready!
ZenCoder is an usable frontend to mencoder, with a simple usage: just drop your videos on the Zen icon to start the conversion!
You can also choose the video (xvid scaled 320×240) and audio bitrate (mp3lame abr), skip conversions and view queued files.
Of course it supports RGBA colormap!
Yeah my girlfriend is both pretty and uses Linux, why I’m so lucky?
P.S.: If you have suggestions for improvements in the code feel free to poke me, this was really my first attempt in GUI programming, and it may have odd points. It also lacks of a good Makefile, an installation script and a .desktop entry. Please write me an email if you want to contribute.
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