I have some xvids that I wish to backup to DVD (for storage not playback) and I am 40meg over the size of the dvd. All of them have been made using nandub i believe (virtualdub complains of vbr encoding) and every reencode I have done has failed in both quality and sync. I have saved 'wav' in vdub and tried reencoding (seems to be crashing pc. tried to reencode with vdub but it complains of not having the decompressor... which is only lame i believe. Most files are around the 350mb size with one being 700mb in size which is the one i wanted to shrink. ** My current method is: Open - (complains of vbr and sync) Save WAV Wav Audio (Full Processing Mode) Fast Recompress (DivX Selected, Slow Speed High Qual) Save AVI Any ideas what I may be doing wrong? also are there any 'noob' probrams where i can just load the files tell it to compress more and "ta-da!!!" ?