Dear All, Thanks for the kavi2svcd advice. I finally got it installed and I like the looks of it. I placed my mpeg into it to turn into vcd and it supposedly did so successfully , but I cannot find the file. I even chose the destination file, but just cannot find it. I need to find it of course so that I can burn it with K3b. Any ideas here? Here is the log in case anyone wishes to look at it:===================== transcode -i "/home/marcia/Desktop/MainActorhelp/photoproject/photoproj1.mpg" -y mpeg2enc,null -E 44100 -F1 -w 1152 -b 224 -Z 352x240 -j -12 -o "/home/marcia/Desktop/MainActorhelp/photoproject/photoproj1/vcdfinshed" -export_asr 2 ================== |E| transcode v0.6.11 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003 T. Bitterberg |E| [import_null.so] v0.2.0 (2002-01-19) (video) null | (audio) null |E| [import_mpeg2.so] v0.4.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG2 |E| [export_null.so] v0.1.2 (2001-08-17) (video) null | (audio) null |E| [export_mpeg2enc.so] v1.1.10 (2003-10-30) (video) MPEG 1/2 |E| [export_mpeg2enc.so] *** init-v *** ! |E| [export_mpeg2enc.so] cmd=mpeg2enc -v 0 -I 0 -f 1 -F 5 -n p -a 2 -o "/home/marcia/Desktop/MainActorhelp/photoproject/photoproj1/vcdfinshed.m1v" |E| sh: line 1: mpeg2enc: command not found [transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms [transcode] auto-probing source /home/marcia/Desktop/MainActorhelp/photoproject/photoproj1.mpg (ok) [transcode] V: import format | MPEG (V=mpeg2|A=null) [transcode] V: import frame | 352x240 1.47:1 encoded @ 1:1 [transcode] V: clip frame (<-) | 352x264 [transcode] V: zoom | 352x240 1.61:1 (Lanczos3) [transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.455 [transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 30.000,5 [transcode] A: import format | 0x2001 AC3/A52 [ 0,16,0] [transcode] A: export | disabled [transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 30.000,5 [transcode] A: bytes per frame | 0 (0.000000) [transcode] A: adjustment | 0@1000 [transcode] V: IA32 accel mode | 3dnow (3dnow mmxext mmx asm) [transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 352x264 [import_mpeg2.so] tcextract -x mpeg2 -i "/home/marcia/Desktop/MainActorhelp/photoproject/photoproj1.mpg" -d 0 | tcdecode -x mpeg2 -d 0 clean up | frame threads | unload modules | cancel signal ||E| [transcode] encoded 1800 frames (0 dropped, 0 cloned), clip length 60.00 s internal threads | done I have no sound purposely in this video . If anyone understands how to work the kavi2svcd very well I would love to know how you do it. Thanks. Marcia