[Drivers Instalation in Post-Install stage (New Method)]

Yeah it's finally out.. thanks Madboy, gonna play with it this weekend

[Drivers Instalation in Post-Install stage (New Method)]

SWEEEEET!!!!

[Drivers Instalation in Post-Install stage (New Method)]

Is this project still going? I found this thread about a month ago in my web travels and have been waiting patiently for the new release. I have been using Bashrats drivers for like 3-4 years now and love the idea of being able to put this on a standalone cd, or better yet my usb flash drive.

[Multimedia programs, codecs, DVD player]

Only one i've found so far is Storm Codec 5.07RC3. Take a look on google, seems to play everything

[Anyone know much about video encoding?]

IMHO I like Real Media Encoder. Depending on how small you would like to get your movies compressed. I am getting near DVD quality video and the final size is around 250 megs. Now this does take a little bit of time to compress and I have found that on slower computers > 1 gig seem to have problems sometimes. A good program to start with is autorv10, it's mainly for dvd ripping but it has a very nice gui and lets you know what is going on. I personally don't like Divx or H.264 as they seem to suck when trying to get a smaller size then 700 megs. I hope this helps