I'm using the CVS versions of mplayer, usually quite successfully. Lately, however, I've run into a problem. I want to use mplayer to convert some old realaudio files into wav files and from there into mp3's using lame. Unfortunately, mplayer fails to read about half of the .ra files, even though I can play any of them with realplayer 8.0. Here's what I get: Playing 28_8.36.ra Falling back on trying to parse playlist 28_8.36.ra... ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported ============= === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! === I also tried forcing the codecs to be the same as the ones that worked, but got nowhere. Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. I don't subscribe to the list, and would appreciate a cc of any reply. Thanks David