Whenever I try to use tmpgenc 2.5 I get audio, but a blackscreen. I downloaded the trial express version and it works fine. I also downloaded the trial video server plug-in from video tools and convert from premiere pro 1.5 directly to tmpgenc 2.5 without any problem. I just seem to have the blackscreen problem when I use tmpgenc 2.5. Any ideas what this could be? It's been going on more than a week now, I'm going nuts. Am I safe to assume that the program works like WinAvi? As in you open the video to be converted, the output file (change some preferences if you'd like), hit the button and wait? My original video files are avi's. I also tried Gspot and it said the file type was dvsd and that video codecs were NOT installed. I had klite installed, shouldn't that cover it? Thanks for any help!