nope no mix. i used lagarith from the start. and honestly i think it was a bad choice. because nothing will encode it. at least no descent mpeg2 encoder. i know others use it with no problems but in my case something about my pc does not like lagarith at all. or maybe i made another stupid mistake somewhere. but last night i proved to myself that its nothing to do with my current windows install or anything thats installed on it. i keep the original harddrive that came with my laptop in an almost factory state and use it with acronis true image to reboot my laptop when needed. so i swapped over to it and installed cce in hope that it would encode on a fresh os with no video junk. failed. i have tried cce, tmpg, and hcencoder. and all freeze upon trying to encode the file. i am frustrated as hell. but no retreat as they say so that is why i am starting over by replacing all my lagarith sources with huffyuv. if this does not solve it then i have no clue what went wrong.