Hallo! I now have an DVB-T USB stick working and went through the mplayer documentation for DVB. I find this section of the docs very confusing and out dated. Here some suggestions: 1) What is ment by dvb output? Can ff-dvb-card (full featured dvb cards) be use with mpegpes for hardware encoding??? Or does it mean one can use ff-dvb- cards to decode any mpeg-stream by the hardware even if it is not DVB? If that's ment the term dvb output is very confusing. I'd suggest something like: "Use full featured dvb cards to do hardware decoding on mpeg2-streams other than dvb, eg. dvd vob-files" 2) The hardware decoding example differs from the first software decoding line only in the file name. Does the file extension make the difference? 3) Is mpegpes only ment for ff-dvb-cards? If so, it should be mentioned as now a days budget cards get more and more common. 4) In connection with mpegpes there is also mpeg-4 mentioned. Is that for chips which can do mpeg-4 hardware decoding? 5) It could be said in the dvb input part that an alang-option set in any configfile can lead to no sound if the language is not in the stream. 6) Last there is "realtime transcoding between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (partial decompression)" mentioned. It seems this is outdated. In my researches I found out that in 2002 it had been dropped off the ToDo-list. I couldn't find anything newer to that concerning mplayer/mencoder. Is it possible now? If so, how? As far as I can understand I found something about it at the TU Braunschweig. (mpeg-4 transcoding http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/users/brandt/ ) Can that be use for mplayer? Finally: If I use the keys 'h' or 'k' to change the channel when watching dvb- t mplayer changes it but then does not take any further input from the keyboard. Ctrl-C works though. Same happens when I use the menu with dvbsel to change the channel. What can I do about it? MPlayer rules! Thanks Lynx