i have been using avi2svcd for about 2 years now with the superbly excellent "chickenman tutorial) my computer recently crashed and i had to d/load everythig again now this is my problem i have done a few movies and for some reason after they have encoded i am left with a dvd file of about 1.5 gb to 2.5 instead of the usual 4.2 approx i have checked all the settings in avi2svcd and d2sroba and everything is okay i dont know how many times i have done this in the past and everything has been ok BUT not this time surely i am missing something here but i sure as hell can't see it thanks in advance for any help gordon