Hi, If I do a : mplayer -vo xv -fixed-vo foo1.avi foo2.avi (with foo1.avi =foo2.avi) it always destroys the window at the end of foo1.avi and recreate a new one to play foo2.avi, which it should not do if I read correctly. The same behavior occurs with -vo x11 Attached is a log file resulting from: mplayer -vo x11 -fixed-vo x.avi x.avi -- Pierre Lombard GPG: 0x1AF0803C