diff --git a/trunk/blender/config/linux2-config.py b/trunk/blender/config/linux2-config.py
index edc7f26..bd323e4 100644
--- a/trunk/blender/config/linux2-config.py
+++ b/trunk/blender/config/linux2-config.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ WITH_BF_FFMPEG = 'false'  # -DWITH_FFMPEG
 BF_FFMPEG = '/usr'
 BF_FFMPEG_INC = '${BF_FFMPEG}/include'
 BF_FFMPEG_LIBPATH='${BF_FFMPEG}/lib'
-BF_FFMPEG_LIB = 'avformat avcodec avutil'
+BF_FFMPEG_LIB = 'avformat avcodec avutil swscale'
 
 # Mesa Libs should go here if your using them as well....
 WITH_BF_STATICOPENGL = 'false'
diff --git a/trunk/blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c b/trunk/blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
index 703f280..8576f59 100644
--- a/trunk/blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
+++ b/trunk/blender/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <ffmpeg/avformat.h>
 #include <ffmpeg/avcodec.h>
 #include <ffmpeg/rational.h>
+#include <ffmpeg/swscale.h>
 
 #if LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_INT < (49 << 16)
 #define FFMPEG_OLD_FRAME_RATE 1
@@ -258,6 +259,7 @@ static void write_video_frame(AVFrame* frame)
 static AVFrame* generate_video_frame(uint8_t* pixels) 
 {
 	uint8_t* rendered_frame;
+	static struct SwsContext *img_convert_ctx;
 
 	AVCodecContext* c = get_codec_from_stream(video_stream);
 	int width = c->width;
@@ -317,8 +319,18 @@ static AVFrame* generate_video_frame(uint8_t* pixels)
 	}
 
 	if (c->pix_fmt != PIX_FMT_RGBA32) {
-		img_convert((AVPicture*)current_frame, c->pix_fmt, 
-			(AVPicture*)rgb_frame, PIX_FMT_RGBA32, width, height);
+		if (img_convert_ctx == NULL)
+			img_convert_ctx = sws_getContext(c->width, c->height,
+							 PIX_FMT_RGBA32,
+							 c->width, c->height,
+							 c->pix_fmt,
+							 SWS_BICUBIC,
+							 NULL, NULL, NULL);
+		sws_scale(img_convert_ctx, rgb_frame->data,
+			  rgb_frame->linesize, 0, c->height, 
+			  current_frame->data, current_frame->linesize);
+//		img_convert((AVPicture*)current_frame, c->pix_fmt, 
+//			(AVPicture*)rgb_frame, PIX_FMT_RGBA32, width, height);
 		delete_picture(rgb_frame);
 	}
 	return current_frame;
diff --git a/trunk/blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/anim.c b/trunk/blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/anim.c
index 5b185a4..5cdb651 100644
--- a/trunk/blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/anim.c
+++ b/trunk/blender/source/blender/imbuf/intern/anim.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
 #include <ffmpeg/avformat.h>
 #include <ffmpeg/avcodec.h>
 #include <ffmpeg/rational.h>
+#include <ffmpeg/swscale.h>
 
 #if LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION_INT < (49 << 16)
 #define FFMPEG_OLD_FRAME_RATE 1
@@ -619,6 +620,7 @@ static ImBuf * ffmpeg_fetchibuf(struct anim * anim, int position) {
 	AVPacket packet;
 	int64_t pts_to_search = 0;
 	int pos_found = 1;
+	static struct SwsContext *img_convert_ctx;
 
 	if (anim == 0) return (0);
 
@@ -706,12 +708,32 @@ static ImBuf * ffmpeg_fetchibuf(struct anim * anim, int position) {
 				unsigned char * p =(unsigned char*) ibuf->rect;
 				unsigned char * e = p + anim->x * anim->y * 4;
 
-				img_convert((AVPicture *)anim->pFrameRGB, 
-					    PIX_FMT_RGBA32, 
-					    (AVPicture*)anim->pFrame, 
-					    anim->pCodecCtx->pix_fmt, 
-					    anim->pCodecCtx->width, 
-					    anim->pCodecCtx->height);
+//				img_convert((AVPicture *)anim->pFrameRGB, 
+//					    PIX_FMT_RGBA32, 
+//					    (AVPicture*)anim->pFrame, 
+//					    anim->pCodecCtx->pix_fmt, 
+//					    anim->pCodecCtx->width, 
+//					    anim->pCodecCtx->height);
+				if (img_convert_ctx == NULL) {
+					img_convert_ctx = sws_getContext(
+						anim->pCodecCtx->width,
+						anim->pCodecCtx->height,
+						anim->pCodecCtx->pix_fmt,
+						anim->pCodecCtx->width,
+						anim->pCodecCtx->height,
+						PIX_FMT_RGBA32,
+						SWS_BICUBIC,
+						NULL, NULL, NULL);
+				}
+				sws_scale(img_convert_ctx,
+					anim->pFrame->data,
+					anim->pFrame->linesize,
+					0,
+					anim->pCodecCtx->height,
+					anim->pFrameRGB->data,
+					anim->pFrameRGB->linesize);
+
+
 				IMB_flipy(ibuf);
 				if (G.order == L_ENDIAN) {
 					/* BGRA -> RGBA */