Hi- I can help you, but why don't we take it private-send me a PM. But I'll do it only if you're willing to use GKnot and an .avs. Send me your .avs with the lines beginning with "#" taken out. I recommend you do that anyway so you can make sense of the thing. Also, give me the name of the anime-maybe I've ripped it before. However, the freezing problem is something else I would guess. Are you overheating, by chance? There's very little that will stress a computer the way video encoding does. Maybe run Prime95 for a few hours to insure that you're completely stable. Are you running Motherboard Monitor so you can keep an eye on the temps?