A couple of things have pressed the pause button on my project, firstly the weather, I hate this hot weather because it wipes me out and everything just seems like too much effort (I'd really not cope if I lived in a hot climate), and more importantly I need to scrape up about £150 for a couple of replacement harddrives, the two 120gb's I have just aren't enough and need to replace them with two 250gb's or higher.

As a test I did however re-encode the 4.7gb XviD avi down to a PAL DVD and even though it's from an XviD it still looks great, took it round to a friend's house to see what it was like on his 42" plasma and I'm very happy with the results, another friend who was there commented on how it looked more film-like natural as opposed to the sharpness of a 'proper' DVD which was great to hear because that's what I've been aiming for all along.