hiya, the machine in question is an older notebook, a bit weird sbpro. it runs openbsd. I'm getting this "by default": audio_setup: your card doesn't support 2 channel, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian), 44100 Hz samplerate so, I've been applying this: mplayer.conf: aop="list=resample,format:fout=22050:format=8" it did work in 0.60 era. however, when I upgraded to 0.90rc{1,2,3} (today's cvs didn't compile), the sound messed up, and... [...skip...] AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 32000->176400 (256.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== [pl_resample] Up=128, Down=256, True fout=22050.000000 [pl_format] Input format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian), output format: Unsigned 8-bit [pl_resample] Up=128, Down=256, True fout=22050.000000 [pl_format] Input format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian), output format: Unsigned 8-bit AO: [plugin] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 22050Hz/2ch/8bit... Video: no video!!! Start playing... 2 bytes of audio data lost due to buffer overflow, len = 2A: [...skip...] it doesn't depend on the sound file. I could reproduce the problem on the neighbouring openbsd box - just applied the mentioned line to mplayer.conf no non-openbsd boxes here, so I can't do a research if this is os-dependant or not. -- Igor "CacoDem0n" Grabin, http://violent.death.kiev.ua/