I installed the latest dvd2svcd twice, on two seperate installs of windows xp sp1a and it has never worked properly not even one time. The last xp installation it would fail towards the end saying "cannot open avisynth file" or something. More recently, I installed it and now it freezes when the dvd2avi commands are run. On another forum it says you might have to run dvd2avi manually to register vfapi. Did it, still doesn't work. Do I have to manually click the vfapi batch file or something? This is sooooo annoying, and there's probably not a program written yet to help a newbie manage these apps.