My initial intent was to simply move a video out of wmv to QuickTime. In loading Fourty-Two DVD-VX Plus, I was dismayed by the number of pieces which were being assembled to do such a basic operation. While the developer has gone to great lengths to wrap a bunch of command line junk with a Mac GUI, the fact remains that the GUI is just a thin veneer and unfortunately the command line EXEs poke through. It is ironic but this is considered 'normal' in the typical UNIX world where to complete any task, a pile of command line tools are required. For the typical Mac user, 'dismay' is what occurs and they move on to a more professional solution. To make a good application, the code needs to be extracted from the command line utilities and put into an honest to goodness graphical application built in Cocoa or Carbon. One or 1 CODECs, 1 application, no 1970's throwback command line hacks. Short of this, there is no possibility of any elegance as the interface between GUI and command line tool is problematic at best. +*** for effort, -** for execution. For DVD processing to QuickTime, highly recommend "OpenShiiva" found here in VT. Also recommend using the QuickTime "operating system" to provide any of 80+ output formats including DVI and MPEG-4.