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Originally Posted by elander  A lot of people don't realise that there are alternatives, and most don't understand that there is a free and easy way to generate for instance Flash video: submit your video to YouTube and then download the result (which nowadays is actually a Flash video containing H.264 encoded video). |
Uploading your video to a website in order to download said video again is easy to use? That ignores the fact that most people's upload bandwidth is tiny compared to their download bandwidth.
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If you want more control you can always go to H.264 on your own, through ffmpeg (Mac or Linux) or StaxRip (Win 2000/XP), both free and potent applications.
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None of them as easy to use as Windows Media Encoder. Free (gratis) is more important to most users than Free (libre). To most users, all the different encoders are just free (gratis). What matters to them is that one is easier to use than the others, and if it plays on the majority of computers out there, why bother getting something else?