Automated encoding of large number of video files

I am trying to find some machine-friendly tools for video encoding. They must not require direct user interaction, e.g. through a GUI. Ideally, it will be something that I can control through an XML or command line interface. For example, I would like to be able to say something like "encode this file or network stream, subject to such-and-such parameters, and write the resulting bits to that file or network stream".
Is there something in the QuickTime constellation -- QtPro/QTSS/DSS/Compressor/??? -- that will help me with this? I'm obviously not an expert in any of these products or SDKs and would appreciate any pointers, suggestions, recommendations, etc.
Thanks,
Scott Herzinger

The QuickTime Pro Player can be controlled via AppleScript but I'm not certain what the range of capabilities are. Compressor allows batch processing and version 2 also has a command-line interface (can be run from the Terminal application or by using scripts). There are also third-party tools that allow batch processing using QuickTime codecs. Some of the latter are shareware or freeware, check on VersionTracker.com (for example, the freeware utility QTAmateur does batch exporting but works only with QT7 -- Pro or non-Pro).
As for the command-line interface to Compressor 2, here is a thread that talks a little about what can be done (actually, a problem resolution to get the command line interface to work):
w kucz, "Compressor & Command line" #2, 10:12am Aug 4, 2005 CDT

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