Hi, I am using one of these 3 commands to run mplayer: ./mplayer -v -vo xv file.mpg ./mplayer -v -vo x11 file.mpg ./mplayer -v -vo sdl file.mpg The following problem exists for xv and x11 drivers but not the sdl driver: 1. Start mplayer using one of the above commands from an xterm (or any other suitable X-based terminal). 2. Once mplayer starts, make the video window the active window by placing the mouse cursor on it. Make sure that the cursor's physical location is *outside* the boundary of the xterm from which mplayer was started. 3. Press 'f' to go into the fullscreen mode. 4. Now mplayer stops responding to all keyboard inputs ('q', 'esc', 'f' etc.). Shouldn't mplayer grab the pointer before going into fullscreen ? It appears that the sdl driver is doing it but not the xv/x11 driver. The only way out is to go to another console and kill the mplayer process. thanks - Nil