I don't know enough about the internals to be able to understand why 2.97 consistently produces empty .flv (or m4a) files for me. Have sent this mail again as because of attachments, this mail was queued (successful 2.96 log and bad 2.97 one linked instead) The good http://sprunge.us/aJUh The bad http://sprunge.us/XYbJ TIA