Hi, I'm using SVGA (no X) with very few problems, thanks for thinking of us console users! My only major problem is with the Sipro audio files, every one I've tried gives the following error: ----- MPlayer CVS-020930-04:43-2.95.3 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Pentium MMX P55C (Family: 5, Stepping: 3) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX Reading /home/lpar/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/lpar/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Input config file /home/lpar/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Playing dn20020911a.ra Detected REAL file format! skip_str: 12 bytes skipped skip_str: 20 bytes skipped skip_str: 4 bytes skipped read_str: 4 bytes read ======= WAVE Format ======= Format Tag: 26995 (0x6973) Channels: 1 Samplerate: 16000 avg byte/sec: 16000 Block align: 320 bits/sample: 16 cbSize: 30 Unknown extra header dump: [0] [0] [6] [0] [3] [0] [1] [7] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [4d] [44] [50] [52] [0] [0] [2] [6f] [0] [0] [0] [1] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] skip_str: 0 bytes skipped skip_str: 16 bytes skipped Clip info: name: Democracy Now! - 9/11/02 author: Pacifica Radio copyright: ©2002, Pacifica ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder ADecoder init failed :( *** Try to upgrade /home/lpar/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf *** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Audio: no sound!!! Video: no video!!! Exiting... (End of file) ----- I've double-checked codecs.conf, which has the correct entry for this codec, read the manual (over a period of a month), tried everything I can possibly think of, and still the error. Btw, the Real COOK audio and all Real video codecs I've found work perfectly, with or without the realplayer 9 upgrade. Any ideas? Thanks. Steve