greenh007,
about your first problem: - the resizing filters in mencoder sometimes have problems with DVDs (or mpeg files). In such cases extra tweaking is needed... (different every time....) Try setting the Resize method to "Do not resize", and then use the same additional mencoder parameters -vf-add scale=320:180 -vf-add expand=320:240:-1:-1:1
about your second problem: again, this is mencoder problem, but try checking "Rebuild avi index" (I doubt that this will help...). Also, after the conversion ends, select the "Fix broken AVI index.ini" preset, and open the converted file (yes, the file you just ceated). Then convert again (it will process very fast), and see if the new file plays on windows (it should be with _converted_converted.avi suffix).
about your third problem: EXACTLY what is the error message displayed?
(and btw viDrop is not tested under Windows 2000...)
Good luck... (you will need it)
