Hi Stream Recorder,
Thanks for the informative reply.
I solved the problem of recording the .smi files by first playing them in Real Player and then burning them to cd( a hard drive option is not available)
From the cd i was able to use as a source for xilisoft and start converting to mpeg2.
There were a bunch of options i wasn't familiar with such as bit rate, resolution, and others, i did a google search and gave it my best shot.
My dual core cpu's were running at 100% so conversion pushes the present technology to the limit!

The conversioin was still taking place at 12.30 midnight so i aborted it, the two .rm files had expanded to 850 mb in mpeg2 format each by that time.
I tried playing the incomplete, aborted versions using PowerDVD and they did play ! though with skips, the picture and sound were good!
I guess 1.5 hours og mpeg2 would turn into 1.6GB ??

I will try again today.


stable.