I think it might be a stability issue, actually, Moth3r; still different points at which the operation crashes. Would the script stop automatically if a dll was missing? Also, is it possible to append chunks of lagarith encoded avi together without frame-drops? I'm still running into problems with the enocde, at least paritally now becuase I live in a fairly remote area, and power surges pretty commonly knock out my computer. If I can at least salvage the past day worth of processing, that would be cool. Any thoughts?