Hi, 09 Jan 2006 00:53:53 +0100, Turbos X <turbos10 at interia.pl>: > char* lpBuffer="mute\0"; DWORD aaa; The last time I tried MPlayer-slave mode in Cygwin, MPlayer only understood commands, if they were followed by a whitespace. I don't remember, if a newline was needed after the whitespace... Hope this helps anyway :) hco