I capture HDTV videos from my Motorola 6412 cable box via Firewire and CapDVHS to my PC. And yes, my cable company knows ALL about it. I'm legal! I have the extention set to ".ts". I edit and convert the clip using HDTVtoMPEG2. I check the resultant .mpg and all looks fine. I have (among other apps) Nero 6.6.0.15 including the 5.1 plugin. After adding the clip to NeroVison Express 3 I have a light gray bar on the bottom of the clip. I have TMPGEnc 3.0 and know about using "mask" but that will kill my ability to produce a 5.1 disk. On some clips there is no problem but others have had lines at the top or bottom as this one does. WTF? I appreciate your help as I've been screwing with this for weeks and have decided I must have done too much LSD in college afterall cause I can't fix it... Wolf