Hi, One thing about mencoder.... It Rocks! but... ;) If i play my movie (7 years in tibet... still ;) with mplayer, it becomes wide-screen. If i encode it with mencoder, it's encoded in a less wide aspect ratio. Now, while playing the DVD in mplayer, it tells me something about using a pre-scaler (sorry, dont have output handy at the moment). Is this a bug due to lacking pre-scaler support in mencoder ? or.. is this a feature, because the pre-scaler just makes the "narrow" movie play as "wide" in mplayer ? Oh yes.. the "tingling sound" problem isnt fixed yet with the CVS release of mplayer. I'm going to export a vob from my laptop to my desktop so i can try playing it with a different soundcard (not easily tried with a laptop). I'll keep you informed. -- Stillageek