Originally posted by: Ken_g6
The link to DIKO doesn't seem to work. I haven't done any MPEG2 encoding with it, but
QuEnc is a really fast MPEG1/2 encoder (like, 3-4x the speed of TMPGEnc for MPEG1). Requires
AviSynth, also free, and either the ability to write AviSynth scripts or a frontend to AviSynth.
Browsing your list, I see you don't have a few other programs I like.
File compression: 7-Zip - suggested by
Ken_g6. Supports 5 formats fully (including zip, gzip, and bzip), and another 7 (including rar) for decompression. Almost as easy to use as WinZip: includes an explorer extension, but no drag-and-drop capability. Creates (sometimes) smaller zip archives, and (almost always) smaller .7z archives (roughly equivalent to .rar in size).
HTTP proxy: The Proxomitron - suggested by
Ken_g6. An incredibly useful HTTP proxy. At its simplest, it's an ad blocker and proxy relay. With only a little more work, it can do many more things, like present WGet (or similar website copier) requests as Internet Explorer requests, or kill all images on certain sites. It also automatically uses gzip encoding when available, e.g. for WGet which doesn't.