i've just made my first conversion and getting it running was hell afterwards.
tried : Videolan, Media Player Classic, QT, Jetaudio,
PowerDVD and had to settle on WMP10
even then getting it to play on tvout was a pain in the butt, had to open in WMP10, drag to tv, get it stuck halfway between windows for a bit, then when in tv screen i had to close, then reopen the conversion to get WMP10 playing straight off in the tv screen, then the movie wouldn't play before i grabbed the progress bar and moved it forwards a bit
immediately noticing the playtime report issue