That worked. thank you. I do have a quick question. I wanted to know if the following would encode a movie from divx3 to divx4 and rescale to 160x120 with mono audio mencoder input.avi -x 160 -y 120 -sws 2 -ovc divx4 -divx4opts br=50 -lameopts br=56:cbr:mode=3 -ofps 20 -o output.avi Thanks David