Hi, After "mplayer -vop pp=help" mplayer prints the help information (this is right :-) and leaves the console in a state that any inputted text doesn't appear on it (this is wrong :). Bug in up-to-date CVS version. gcc: 3.2 glibc: 3.2.1 (I think, that more info is not needed in this bugreport) -- Filip Kalinski <filon at pld.org.pl>