Okey Why can I not play it with the x-card (Sigma Designs X-card) it supoport interlace mpeg1/2/4 movies ?? Sigma Designs mp4 encoder does have interlace coding and it working with the x-card why does not Xvid interlace works ??? I wrote the interlacing code for XviD, so I can only assume that either: - XviD's interlacing support is broken (it's possible I guess) - Sigma aren't using "real" MPEG-4 interlacing, but a filter like DivX5, thus they don't really support MPEG-4 interlacing (same as ffdshow) - Sigma supports MPEG-4 interlacing, however *their* implementation has a bug I honestly don't know which one it will be. I'll have to test it next week. I'd hate to think there's a bug in the current interlacing code, however if there is, it would be a small matter to create a converter to "correct" the bitstream losslessly (and of course fix the bug itself). -h