Has anyone come up with an XVid antifreeze yet?

There's no danger of corrupting your self-produced XviD-files because of a scratched CD. As long as it isn't an XCD with an AVI-format file on it. The filesystem used on normal CDs (or on your PC, to mention it) saves a lot of redundant information for error retrieval. Nothing to do with XviD. But a damaged file shared over a network is a damaged file. Full stop. I guess we should close this thread. There really is nothing like freeze frames produced by XviD. What do you think, Nic, Koepi? Edit: AFAIK there's indeed some error-resilience in XviD. But serious error-correction capability is definitely not the task of a codec. It's the task of a filesystem. If you don't have the file (be it a video, a text or whatever) stored on a disk but receive it over a network, file-integrity is the task of the protocol that the application used for transmitting the file uses. If it fails there still is the chance to safe some of a video IF it has been stored in a container that provides it's own error-correction or at least recognition. Such formats are .MPEG, .OGM and perhaps .MKV someday.