[Hawk]

Thanks for all the help lca77, much appreciated!

I ended up wiping everything off the pc that had anything to do with codecs and ripping etc, I then had to re-install the mpeg4 codec to get windows media player to play video again. I then installed xvid and vidx codecs. Then I re-downloaded vidrop.
After doing that I tried converting a film to avi from the source file I used to make the perfect copy with, what happened is when I double clicked the "new made" avi file it tried to load up in media player and a box appeared like a graph whith a horizontal line going through it, this is what was worded above it -

AVI Chunk viewer

This avi file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative "avi splitter" will now let the default one handle it. The complete reinterleavng of the file is strongly reccomended before burning it onto a slow medium like a cd rom.

Ok, the file I made was a standard file with no added parameters but it deffinately looks like im missing some kind of code from somewhere.