Hi, I have some long video files 4+ hours CBR, windows media 9 codecs, that have long segments of an empty room. we want to re-encode the file using pause removal to get rid of the blank spaces. When we run the enocder it runs for a few seconds then the video freezes. The encoder seems to be running but it crashes if you try to stop encoding or shut down the application. it also uses no CPU and nothing appears in aither the event log or the pause removal log. I tired cutting the files into small segments, same result. One file I did get to work happened to be encoded in stereo by mistake all the other files are 20k 32hz mono. Any ideas? thanks for your help