This is odd... I've been converting d/l'd DivX files to VDC format to put on discs to play in my DVD player. Converting a 45min. DivX file to MPEG-1 CBR at 480kb/s with Ghost Reduction, Noise Reduction and Sharpen Edge options turned on took about 3.5 hours on my P-III 550 (o/c'd to 770Mhz) with 256MB RAM and a 120GB RAID5 disk array. I recently put together an Athlon XP 1800+ system with 1GB of RAM and a 20GB HD relegated my other machine to the position of file server. When I attempted to pick up where I left off with the encoding, I figured it would be much faster. However, it is taking exactly the same amount of time. At first, I thought it might have been because I was trying to access the source file through my network and then write the destination file back through the network, so I pulled the source file to the local disk and also wrote to the local disk with no change in encoding speed. To top it off, I'm now getting artifacts all over the screen. This never happened on the P-III. Help? Anybody? Suggestions?