ok, i had TMPGEnc the free one, and I would start to encode my movie from AVI to MPEG(i have all the codecs) and at approximately 9 minutes it would just shut down. So i decided to try it with a different movie but i still got the same problem. i got the tmpgenc plus thinking that it was just a problem with the program but i had the same exact problem. i know that it is not the moive but it is the computer because i have tried the movies on my other computer(much slower so not too good for making movies) and it worked fine!!! what the hell is going on???? how can i fix this, i am running a Windows XP Home Edition machine. when the program just automatically quit, something oppened up on the tray thing at the bottom right. it was a C-Media for my audio card?? so i thought that that was the problem so i disabled it, same problem, cept the C-Media didnt open up on me!!! what is going on??? thanx for all the help!!!