I'm a bit new to using mplayer for linux and am trying to play a .avi movie. I get the audio but no video... I'm using a sony viao laptop (Athlon 4, with ATI Mobility video card). can anybody help? thanks, Derek here is the output in terminal: --- Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer 0.90rc3-3.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directo ry Reading config file /home/derek/.mplayer/config Reading /home/derek/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/derek/.mplayer/codec s.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 130 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/derek/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. Using usleep() timing Can't open input config file /home/derek/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or d irectory Input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Playing movie.avi AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [DIV3] 352x240 24bpp 29.97 fps 505.9 kbps (61.8 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000->88200 (32.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== fbdev: Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffdivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3)) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 22050 hz, little endian signed int AF_pre: 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) AO: [oss] 22050Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/16bit... Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [null] 352x240 => 352x240 Planar YV12 A: 2.3 V: 2.3 A-V: -0.001 ct: -0.004 71/ 71 0% 0% 2.3% 0 0 0% ----------------- _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail