Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I'm having a similar problem, and I've captured the information requested of the previous poster. First, here's my command line: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC>vlc -vvv "C:\vlctest\E03.avi" --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,scale=1,acodec=mp2a,a...