well i was using dvd2svcd with que enc to do it and was following the guide on this site after a long night of wait i woke up to this Executing DVDAuthor. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\dvdauthor.exe" -x "C:\DVDAuthor.xml" DVDAuthor failed for unknown reasons! For details open: "C:\DVDAuthor_log.txt" so i opened that and saw DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: Locale=C INFO: Converting filenames to US-ASCII INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 01 STAT: Processing C:\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg... ERR: Error opening C:\MPlex_Muxed_File00.mpg: No such file or directory any1 know what i did wrong? oh and i got this when i retried using the recover button Executing MkIsoFs. Commandline: "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mkisofs.exe" -o "C:\DVDImage.iso" -publisher "DVD2SVCD" -volid "" -dvd-video "C:\DVD-Files" MkIsoFs failed for unknown reasons! For details open: "C:\MkIsoFs_log.txt" and in that it said /cygdrive/c/Program Files/DVD2SVCD/DVDAuthor/mkisofs: No such file or directory. Faild to open C:\DVD-Files//VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO /cygdrive/c/Program Files/DVD2SVCD/DVDAuthor/mkisofs: Can't open VMG info for 'C:\DVD-Files/'. /cygdrive/c/Program Files/DVD2SVCD/DVDAuthor/mkisofs: Unable to parse DVD-Video structures. /cygdrive/c/Program Files/DVD2SVCD/DVDAuthor/mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image.