when trying to play http://bfmtv.streamakaci.com/bfmtv/videos/WMV/BFMTV_25_2009_3_23_22_13.wmv [wmv3 @ 0x800fc8d0]Reserved RES_SM=2 is forbidden and no video at all. It seems it's some unsupported bitstream flag... and google finds many other cases. Anyway, in case you want a sample, here you have one :p Fran?ois.