Thanks for your help ChickenMan.
Now some more questions, please
What you have suggested works well for my small 30min divx's (weel I have tried the authoring art yet) but when I want to do a movie legth divx (and adjusting the corresponding bits in dvd2svcd to suit) CCE crashes. If I tick use tmpgenc, all is fine. You mention "Add ResampleAudio needs to be ticked if you have an AMD CPU, else CCE will crash. " I haven't done this with my Intel, should I (it's a 2.8gig HyperThread)
Now I get to the Author part (after tmpgenc finally finishes-gee it's slow) . I go through all your settings and get to click the Begin Output button and tmpgenc author just quits on me. If I look on the hard drive I have the audio ts and video ts folders - BOTH are empty.