> Hope this manages to save someone the 2 odd days > I've spent trying to understand how mencoder works It is hard to beat mplayer/mencoder for a bewildering array of semi-compatible options, indecipherable man page, and inscrutable behavior... but the docs at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html are helpful. For slicing dicing avi/wmv files, the "transcode" package might work well and be easier to figure out than mencoder, and it is Free Software. (http://www.transcoding.org/) (http://tcforge.berlios.de/) _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users