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> Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear - that was the page I > started from (-: I have tried to convert the avi's I 've downloaded to > mpeg with the tools that 'Big J' talks about, but they fail with the > error message shown in my original posting. That's what I'm trying to > understand and work around - like I said, I don't know a whole lot about > video encoding, so I'm not sure how something that 'file' identifies as > an .avi is not the 'right' avi, at least as far as the lav toolset is > concerned. Did you try the 'file' command on the .avi files: file mymovie.avi I'd be interested to see what that returns. Fred Ollinger _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug