Sorry you're having trouble. Ting was in the forum last night (USA time) and may be back again today and hopefully will see your post. In the meantime, I can offer only a few suggestions based on my limited experience with these modes. First, if you don't already have it, download ffdshow. It worked well with pre-3.1.0.x Fab AVIs and even allowed me to use the slider in WMP without audio loss (but VLC always seemed to work better). It might help Ting if you could download Yamb (if you don't have it) and post what it says about the video stream in your file. There is a link to the download site in the "Making MP3s" link in my sig. That is a pretty high bit rate but I've done some tests of short segments that high and higher (but with the older versions). Good luck with it.