I have mplayer 0.50 working on a modified Slackware 7.0 system, but only for some media types. I can play .mpg files but not .avi files. Trying to play any of the .avi files I have produces the following output: babylon5:alaric:~:1 $ mplayer Movies/Biaggi.avi MPlayer 0.50 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) Reading /home/alaric/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 18 audio & 40 video codecs Font /home/alaric/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) Playing Movies/Biaggi.avi Detected AVI file format! MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (16) HAS_INDEX AVI_NI: No Audio stream found... ->nosound AVI: No Audio stream found... ->nosound VIDEO: [CRAM] 240x180 16bpp 15.00 fps 1098.3 kbps (134.1 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x4D415243 size:240x180 fps:15.00 ftime:=0.0667 Detected video codec: [cram] drv:2 (Microsoft Video 1) ERROR: Couldn't allocate memory for fs segment: Bad file descriptor Loading DLL: 'msvidc32.dll' Error no 9 VirtualAlloc(0x0x7d4b0000, 65536) failed Error no 9 VirtualAlloc(0x(nil), 65536) failed Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: msvidc32.dll, /usr/local/share/mplayer/win32/msvidc32.dll, /usr/lib/win32/msvidc32.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/msvidc32.dll Can't open library msvidc32.dll MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec babylon5:alaric:~:2 $ The dll varies with the specific file (this one requires msvidc32.dll, the others I have require ir41_32.dll or ir50_32.dll), but the actual error is always the same. Can anyone point me at a probable source for the problem? All paths and file permissions are correct. -- ********* Fight Back! It may not be just YOUR life at risk. ********* phil stracchino :: alaric@babcom.com :: halmayne@sourceforge.net unix ronin :::: renaissance man :::: mystic zen biker geek 2000 CBR929RR, 1991 VFR750F3 (foully murdered), 1986 VF500F (sold) Linux Now! ...because friends don't let friends use Microsoft.