im using cyberlink windows media and music match juke box with the codecs for avi im using gspot which automatically decodes all the movies and divx which converts the movies the movies then play on playstations xbox 360 and portable dvd players but not on the normal dvd player but as i said my computer wont recognise dvd-r/rw and i think that is where the problem is anglesofjovi@yahoo.co.uk thanks