Do you have the "x264" package installed? Also, have you tried using "ffmpeg" to convert some video to libx264 codec? Let's try this command, and see if libx264 works with MLT: $ melt -verbose -profile dv_pal_wide /home/jonathan/Desktop/example.avi -consumer avformat:/home/jonathan/Desktop/example.mp4 acodec=mpeg2 ab=128k ar=44100 f=mp4 vcodec=libx264 minrate=0 b=900k On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, sk8dork