I am submitting a bug report with following information included as per the bug report request documentation. This report reffers to my all so vauge problem of mencoder pl ayback of DVD encoded input and things looking like video on acid, it clears about every 10 secs and starts melting again. (see I tried -nosound as suggested to no change, I encoded this with the following commands as stated in DOCS , ALL get the same result mencoder -dvd 2 -ovc divx4 -oac mp3lame -divx4opts br=1100 -o test.avi -pass 1 mencoder -dvd 2 -ovc divx4 -oac mp3lame -divx4opts br=1100 -o test.avi -pass 2 mencoder -dvd 2 -o test.avi mencoder -dvd 2 -x 640 -y 480 -sws 2 -o test.avi As I said, ALL output avi's suffer the same issues. I had to upload a 4 meg slice, to see what artifacting I speak of , the sky is especially odd for the 20cfx light sequence. and (no matter what encode line used above)I get all the same result on playback, all other files play fine, ones I had, ones I downloaded etc. EVERYTHING but the one I encoded, no matter what command I use to encode it. I uploaded a test (My output from mencoder, and the command to run it in the incoming FTP directory CDWACIDtest.avi ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.com/MPlayer/incoming/CDWACIDtest.avi And the full output of mencoder -v -dvd 2 -o test.avi (I figured less options less issues to check and since all encodes appear same) CDWACIDtest.log ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.com/MPlayer/incoming/CDWACIDtest.log The DVD I was trying to encode was ID4..... Here are system specs * linux distribution RedHat 7.2 * kernel version: 2.4.7-10 * libc version: 2.2.4 * X version: 4.1.0-3 * gcc and ld version: 3.0.2 ( I even did the UNSPEAKABLE, and built with 2.96, still same issues) 2.11.90.0.8 * binutils version: 2.11.90.0.8 NVidia card as follows 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 DDR (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 10 Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 Sound as follows 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0987 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] I/O ports at e000 [size=4] I/O ports at e400 [size=4] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 I have tried it with BOTH nvidia 1541 and 2314 drivers same results... I have no problems with this system, my video rocks, I pull 1250+ fps with gears, and can play Return to Castle Wolfenstien just fine :) I have been asked about the following and here goes Some other things that may get asked so here they are divx4linux-20011010_4.02 is the DivX4 Linux lib libdvdcss-0.0.3 libdvdread-0.9.2 lame-3.90 ALSO , the -cache option seems to help for standard DVD playback, I didnt see it in the docs and missed it in the man page, Thanks, BUT what is the optimal setting (or average setting) for this in kb ? Much thanks, Chris Wertman I also have another question in the docs it states you have to download and install source tree for libavcodec seperatly, but it appears in the tree, is this just an out of date DOCS issue or am ( I tied with the libavcoded encode as well, same damm thing am I missing something in regards to libavcodec , hmm if I take some acid will all this look ok , seems to be an expensive fix...? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com