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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8fb2589..dd7efa3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -25,6 +25,31 @@ To pull updates in the future of this project into your local directory:
 > cd rip_dvd
 > git pull origin
 
+----------------------------------------------
+ENABLING XVID TO ENCODE USING MULTICORES
+----------------------------------------------
+The libxvidcore4 package that you can get through ubuntu or debian
+is version 1.1.0. They didn't enable multi-core encoding using this
+library until version 1.2.0. Since you can't get that in a package,
+you can build it from source easily. Since the xvid codec (this lib)
+is used by mencoder by rip_dvd in all of its xvid profiles (the default),
+you can speed up the encode process quite a bit if you enable multi-cores.
+Follow these instructions to enable the xvid encoding to use multi-cores:
+
+> wget http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
+> gunzip xvidcore-1.2.1.tar.gz
+> tar xvf xvidcore-1.2.1.tar
+> cd xvidcore/build/generic
+> ./configure --prefix=/usr
+> make
+> sudo make install
+> cd /usr/lib
+> sudo rm libxvidcore.so.4
+> sudo ln -s libxvidcore.so.4.2 libxvidcore.so.4
+
+After you do these steps, when rip_dvd is running using any xvid profile,
+you will note with 'top' that the mencoder process is using > 100% of your CPU.
+
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 CONFIGURATION
 ----------------------------------------------
@@ -59,13 +84,13 @@ I choose to place it on the optical menu.
 COMMAND LINE EXAMPLES
 ----------------------------------------------
 
-Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvid profile:
+Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile:
 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x
 
-Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvid profile scaling to 320x240 compressed video size:
+Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile scaling to 320x240 compressed video size:
 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -a 320:240
 
-Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvid profile targetting a certain compressed video filesize (in MB):
+Rip a DVD into a compressed AVI file with default xvidvhq profile targetting a certain compressed video filesize (in MB):
 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -b 2000 -x -s 650
 
 Rip a DVD into a VOB file:
@@ -90,6 +115,6 @@ Rip a DVD into a compressed MP4 file for an ipod AND again for a compressed AVI
 > dvdname=`volname /dev/dvd | awk '{ print $1 }'`
 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir -v
 > rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir/ipod -b 2000 -x -p ipod -n /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB
-> rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir/xvid -b 2000 -x -p xvid -n /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB
+> rip_dvd -d /path/to/dest/dir/xvid -b 2000 -x -p xvidvhq -n /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB
 > rm /path/to/dest/dir/$dvdname.VOB