I use it off and on. Made some decent VCDs at high rate, NTSC. A little artifacting around the titles, but overall good quality. When I just want to rip a rental and only want to click one button and walk away for 13 hours, I get mpgs suitable for burning. Trying to burn directly to CDR has sometimes failed, and to Bin/Cue deletes the CUE files when you tell it to save, so I just specify .mpg extension and burn with Nero. Works for me.