A big thanx for your reply, Swan! Although, I wont capture my VHS tapes directly to MPEG2 since none of known software can do it already at the capture process. I have installed PowerVCR and it is worst (IMHO) than ATI's TV software. The problem with ATI is that he crops the shit if we ask it to do it, but doesn't resize automatically to the standard size of the initial capture, in my case 720x480. I have anyway read a document informing me of the principle of the codecs differences ( spacial and temporal ) and the best for me is to continue the way I already was, that is capturing with a lossless avi codec like PicVideo MJPEG, and then encoding with CCE frameserving by avisynth. I have tried to avoid myself the encoding time process, but with CCE it isn't much pain as with TMPGEnc! Thanx again!