Hello, some days ago I saw a program : dvbtextsubs , availlable on http://www.linuxstb.org/ It extracts teletext subtitles from a DVB stream and outputs them as a xml file. It supports vdr files too. Here's an example of the output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <subpictures> <stream forced="no"> <spu lang="fr" start="0:04:02.391" end="0:04:05.703"> <line row="22" col="-1"></line> </spu> <spu lang="fr" start="0:07:52.215" end="0:07:54.087"> <line row="22" col="12"><white>Ohé, John Cameron !</white></line> </spu> <spu lang="fr" start="0:07:57.255" end="0:07:57.975"> <line row="22" col="14"><white>Chingachgook !</white></line> </spu> <spu lang="fr" start="0:07:58.551" end="0:07:59.991"> <line row="22" col="13"><white>Comment vas-tu ?</white></line> </spu> <spu lang="fr" start="0:08:00.423" end="0:08:02.439"> <line row="22" col="8"><white>Le Maître de la vie est bon</white></line> </spu> <spu lang="fr" start="0:08:04.023" end="0:08:05.895"> <line row="22" col="8"><white>Encore une année de passée</white></line> </spu> This will be a good idea if mplayer could display this subtitles as it can display subtitles from those coded with mencoder or VOB. Is there a major problem to not do this ? Nicolas. -- Powered .~. by Linux /V\ ------ // \\ solutions for /( )\ smart penguins ^`~'^