cheers what a great reply thanks,
I checked cpu usage it was 100% so I understand the speed of transcoding,
I also got AVI codec I see it tells you what codecs you have etc and file type and res etc, I will try not too use while transcoding but theres a queue too get on this bloomin pc in my house I will try and do at nite,I think i
have installed too many codec packs ace codecs and xp codecs maybe remove and start again one last thing in codec list I could not see dvd (*.vob) codec is this right thanks again for time and effort

take care Tony