One problem with handbrake is that the MKV files it creates have really slow seek rates. Hardly slower than real time, in fact. What I do is take the matroska files Handbrake pumps out and pass them through mkvmerge, and then they seek just as well as an avi.
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One problem with handbrake is that the MKV files it creates have really slow seek rates. Hardly slower than real time, in fact. What I do is take the matroska files Handbrake pumps out and pass them through mkvmerge, and then they seek just as well as an avi.