Hi, Ok i've finally done it. -vc and -vfm options accepts a list of codec names/driver names now. so you can set up your preferred codec list/priority without editing codecs.conf. -vfm works as before, but you can list more than one driver name. example: -vfm ffmpeg,dshow,vfw means: try first the ffmpeg codecs, if none acceptable, then try dshow, then vfw, if still none ok, fallback to the others. -vc is more tricky! -vc foobar - same as before: really force codec 'foobar', no fallback. -vc foobar, - try 'foobar' first, then fallback to others (-vfm is still in the game!) -vc foo,bar, - try foo, then bar, then others -vc ,foobar - try others (non-crashing codecs), fallback to foobar (maybe(?) useful to put it to configfile for testing crashing codecs) -vc -foo,-bar, - try others except foo and bar the rule: codecname - try this codec -codecname - disable this codec, ie never try it (empty string) - try others (untested, working, buggy codecs from codecs.conf, in this order, but -vfm is honored here) i'll do the same change for the audio codecs very soon (tomorrow?) A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team -- Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu