Thanx nimmo worked atreat! However I am still having troubles with avi to vcd. I decompress the avi file then use avi2vcd sofware to change the file to vcd format. This takes awhile but runs through ok. The only trouble is once converted to vcd the video does not run smoothly it runs with still frames (althoughb the sound track is fine). Have you any ideas? Thanx angain...