> > Is an mpeg file viewable in any stand alone player? Mac or PC? There is a significant difference between mpg (MPEG-1) as used in VCDs and MPEG-2 as used in DVDs. Simply renaming the file is not enough. If you don't have a DVD decoder installed on the computer (which is something that comes with DVD player software like WinDVD) then you cannot play MPEG-2 files. A really cool tool for converting DVDs to usable formats - especially for the web and also ipods and other mobile gadget is mpegstreamclip which is available for both PC and Mac: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html A PC only tool that is sickeninly versatile when it comes to conversion formats is SUPER http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdt.html (yes, the site navigation is less than super). Before using streamclip I did all my conversion stuff with XMPEG: http://www.xmpeg.net/website/ Beware that there are 34325435435234123 different conversion programs out there (rough estimate), and that 97.384% are total rubbish (actual fact) and not worth their money. HTH Chris -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/