Upgraded to mencoder-686 1.0-pre2-0.0 Problem has developed with the command I have always used. Search of group and doc and not revealed what is causing problem. I do: mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr:vol=6 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi I get the dreaded frameno.avi not found problem: mpierce@libranet:~$ mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=96:cbr:vol=6 -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi MEncoder 1.0pre2-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin 1129 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE Reading /home/mpierce/.mplayer/mencoder_codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/mpierce/.mplayer/mencoder_codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /etc/mplayer/mencoder_codecs.conf: 61 audio & 157 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi Reading config file /home/mpierce/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory -dvd N is deprecated, use dvd://N instead. Exiting... (error parsing cmdline) Help...