I have been using TMPGENC for a while and find it very good. It was taking about 4 - 5 hours to convert and avi to mpeg but since I have re-installed by operating system (same one - XP) it now takes 10 - 12 hours to convert a file. I know there are several versions of TMPGENC available including plus etc and I am not sure which one I was using.

I have started to use a product called showbiz (came with DVD-RW) but this does not let me resize the picture etc.

Can anybody help.