this used to work once (in 2007). And MPlayer is parsing my ~/.mplayer/.config all right, since when I specify this instead: input=file:bla I get Error: option 'input' must have a parameter! Error parsing option input=file:bla at line 9 What's the current correct way of specifying an input fifo in ~/.mplayer/config ? I'm using SVN-r30554. Regards, Wicher Minnaard.