>> I have used mplayer's mencode, but never found a good setting for video >> and >> audio streams which plays well under WMP. > > Well, no idea what WMP is, so... Windows Media Player > >> For good file size and quality (for about 700MB per hour) what should I >> use? >> >> mp3 audio? or just pcm? divx? > > Bouah... no : aac for audio... and x264 for video :-) > -- > Gr?goire Favre Thanks heaps Gr?goire. I gather the you call that bash script from VDR directly? Where do you call it from?? Incidentally, I found the following link which explains mencode quite well : http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/separate/transcoding.html