THank you UK Bob for your reply. I understand about the compression modes that are used but that wasn't my problem.
My problem is that when I download an mpeg or an avi sometimes I will download a 90 min. movie but the length of the movie on 'Media Player' or 'RealPlayer' is only, say, 5 minutes. If I click half way down the seek bar a couple of times I will get a portion of the movie much later in the movie (if that makes sense). If I could get the runtime to read 90 minutes on MediaPlayer or RealPlayer I wouldn't have a problem.
Understandez-vous?? Any help is much appreciated, RFM