I have tried several movies lately that work fine when watching with windows media player as avi files. However, when I try to convert them to mpeg1 (my standalone does not play scvd), tmpg shows the preview screen completely black. And so, of course when I look at the converted mpeg, it too is the same. I have used tmpg to convert many movies now, and this is something new for me. Anyanswers? [/i]