On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Charles Martin wrote: > I'd like to be able to delete the "source" MPEG-2 files after they are > burned to SVCD, but at present I'm stumped on how to extract them back > to "regular" MPEG-2. > Since you still have the original files why not just archive them on a CD/DVD as data files and then feel secure about being able to recover them after deleting them from the hard-drive. Seems like an easier solution than ripping them at some future date and the media for archiving is cheap and small enough that they can be kept conveniently. I would only worry about ripping if the original files were already lost or destroyed. Gerhard