thanks for reply marc, but its still all gobblegook to me being a newbie,i dont seem to have much sucess with tmpeg and when you talk about bitrate and pcm well thats all double dutch to me. so heres the big cahoona, how about a tomb raider sytyle walkthrough that i can print off and knowing which programmes to buy would send me scuttling to the shops pronto,with my trusty walkthrough and armed with the software some day, stephen spielberg might just give me a call?? your help and advice is invaluable to the likes of me but sometimes some of us need a tincy wincy bit more. heres hoping you can find the time,and once again thanks for so-far.

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