Hello. Thanks Mike. I generally don't like Nero software for encoding/decoding b/c it takes a long time (tried it once from .AVI to vcd& it actually froze halfway). Any dvd that I've burned off of dvdshrink (that includes dvds with 3-4 movies with cut-off parts) has been working perfectly even on my ps2 system. DVDshrink and dvddecryptor are two of the fastest& best softwares I've used so far. I've dvds with over 5 hours of segment on them but don't know how they were created (maybe using some expensive software). I'll give Ultra a try when I've time.