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> My need is to bring in high quality video at 30 fps, compress it so it can > fit on removable media (removable hard disks would be prefered) and then > play it back … on an Intel 486 based machine in full screen mode. bascially you have asked for something that is not possible with current technology. The amount of information (bytes) that need to go from disk to screen would be something like (640x480x256 color=300Kb/frame * 30fps = 9Mb/sec *60sec = 540Mb/min * 30 minutes = 16.2 Gigabytes of data). The first problem is getting data into the VGA display fast enough. That poor system was just never designed for it. Then comes the problem of getting data off of the disk fast enough. Then decompressing without adding too much delay. Maybe in a year or three. Sorry.