I'm pleased to report that the "MPlayer" media player has now been updated with improved RTSP/RTP streaming support. - MPEG-4 audio and video RTP streams are now supported. - Buffering of incoming packets has been improved, and there should now be significantly less data loss when playing high bitrate streams. - Audio/video synchronization has been improved (especially after resuming from a pause). - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video streams should now look better when there is packet loss. - In most cases you no longer need to use the "-fps" option to set the video frame rate. Instead, the MPlayer code will try to figure out the frame rate automatically, by comparing the RTP presentation times of successive packets. You can get this new version of MPlayer by downloading the "latest CVS snapshot": http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2 Plus, for RTSP/RTP streaming support, you will also need the "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" libraries. See <http://www.live.com/liveMedia/> for more details. Ross Finlayson LIVE.COM <http://www.live.com/>