doom9 is a good place for help with things.
wikipedia is a good place to get general overview of these technologies, which devices support which containers/codec, etc..
books i can not recommend, the technology moves so fast, most books are outdated by the time they hit the presses.
lots of time in the trenchs beating head against wall is really the only way of learning all the caveats of using the different encoding/transcoding software and getting an awesome product out of it.
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