i have checked the not-working avi with avidemux (~virtualdub for linux) and it seem the first 60 are null and not valid... So it seem in order to convert this file you have to remove all the null frame (avidemux saw 66 bad frame), another solution could to add a check that skip these bad frame during the conversion. Pat, I hope you will continue to improve it, and perhaps when it would be stable, it could be merged with ffmpeg. Matthieu