i'm just posting this for information! for the last 2 months i have been having alot of trouble getting any dvd to vcd software to work correctly, it seems like whenever i would rip a dvd to a mpeg file i would lose about 3 minutes in the middle of the movie.well i have finally gotten it straigtened out, i recently got a virus which caused me to half to format my hard drive after i done this and reinstalled eazy vcd version 1.15a it works great now. i have been running windows 98 SE and tried about every dvd ripping software out there. all had the same result. hope this helps someone.