Is that it!!
Tmpgenc was quite happy with it in dvd2avi directory before..
Wierd.. I'll give it a go and tell ya the results.
thanks mate!!
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Well, it worked.
Thanks - I was doing everything BUT put the frameserver plugin into tmpg's directory!!
It still gave the error bow on the first startup, but I hit 'ok' and just hit start again, and all was well. Maybe it takes time to load the plugin into memory and it's not available when tmpg call it?
Anyway, thanks again, Dialhot (although I still don't undewrstand WHY it was ok yesterday, and dead today.. nothing had changed!! Weirdo Windows!!)