Hello, I have been looking at this thread, so I thought I would try realproducer. I downloaded the basic version, but don't seem to have the right codecs to even get started. I tried capturing a file "movie.avi" with xawtv. Just the basic capture, no sound, no compression. Then, I tried realproducer -i movie.avi -o movie.rm -t 0,1 -v 0 -f 1 -b "My Clip" Here is the output: realproducer -i movie.avi -o movie.rm -t 0,1 -v 0 -f 1 -b "My Clip" RealProducer 8.0 for Linux Copyright (c)1995-2000 by RealNetworks,Inc. All rights reserved. ------> Beginning Run: Mon Oct 9 11:47:07 2000 Command line: realproducer -i movie.avi -o movie.rm -t 0,1 -v 0 -f 1 -b "My Clip" Encoding... ERROR: encoding failed, The source that you have selected is not a recognized file type. The required audio or video plugin could not be located. ------> Ending Run: Mon Oct 9 11:47:07 2000 Did you guys work with realproducer basic or realproducer plus? It seems that the basic can't handle simple xawtv avi's Note: this is with xawtv-3.01. Thanks for any help. -sen