Hi there, I am attempting to migrate from Windows, and don't have as much time as I would like... I am determined to rid myself of the accursed MS but am finding it hard to get into linux - no mates you see... Anyway, I have mplayer running in Mandrake 9.1. I just installed from the M9.1 disc but I don't seem to be able to play bought or hired discs. I have a Geforce 4 card and when trying to get mplayer installed using the instructions from the documentation found it a little hard to do all the things before actually making and installing mplayer. It runs fine with avis and will show ripped vobs (using SR2.41 from windows) but i can't manage to get it to show discs. I tried to use the correct syntax and all from the documentation in a terminal but it gives all these (after a long spiel) failure to read using libdvdread messages and then says opening and starts buffering and gets to about 19.8% or so and stops. It seems to be still reading the disc (ie it won't open and is reading the thing). Is there something I'm doing wrong or do I have to uninstall and install a proper mplayer download from the site (ie mandrake took some stuff out due to copyright issues?)? If so, will I need to install all the drivers and other stuff as well (for the graphics card, etc) or has mandrake already done that? I will eventually be interested in getting mencoder to rip and then convert to xvid (currently using vidomi)but I will try and walk before flying :-) Peace Antonovich -running Mandrake 9.1 on an AthlonXP2000 with an MSI geforce4-64meg with 512 ddr333 dual boot with MSxp ________________________________________________________________________ Send free SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/pc/