HI Folks I have installed Mplayer (Gui version) om redhat 9 Kernl Version is 2.4.20-8 My vga card is (ATI Rage Iic) it is working ok for audio file but when i tried VCD and DVD it gives me a message that it is not able to intialize/open video output device (-VO) the directory of ?dev/dvd was not created My libc version this was the result -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1549556 Mar 14 2003 /lib /libc-2.3.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 20 23:31 /lib /libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) ID version GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.18 20030206 binutils version GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.18 20030206 Thanx for any help Ehab