Hey, y'all, me again Well, I've gotten to my goal, I can now record with ffmpeg in one window, and play back time shifted in another window. That's looking good. Except that the video is not looking good. It's got alot of what I take to be compression effects ... things look like big squares ... The is captured with the default options of ffmpeg, I've tried ofthers, but none of them seem to be able to sync the audio and video. So what format would you guys use, if you had the following requirements: 1) Cheap to decompress (300Mhz cyrus) 2) Expense of compression irrelevent (2 1.2GHZ Athalons) 3) Able to fit through a 100Mbit ethernet pipe 4) As close to lossless as possible. I guess it can be done, 'cause I'm told that with TIVO, you get good quality video. What do you think?