ok do u rip the vobs to your hard drive then make an avi with dvd2avi. because u use this method i assume you have been encoding dvd's for along time as i too used this before "Gknot" or "Vdub" were around. But this program is old and not very efficient. because 1, the code is not being furthur developed (to my knowledge) and is not optermised. 2, you cant perform and sort of filtering(de-noising,smoothing,de-interlacing,subtitles,etc...)well u do get a cropper and a simple levels filter. 3,dont encode your audio with dvd2avi use besweet or other apps to create "abr" or "vrb" mp3, i know u can currently use the mp3 lame encoder but it is not that good at manipulating it(not to mention outdated). i think you should read the readme.txt that comes with ur package of dvd2avi. i would recomend using Virtualdub and using dvd2avi as a frameserver. Also see this thread for additional help NOTE: if you cant find a solution you could ask for a bugfix. But I dout you will see one:p -MadSci