Hey, I scanned through the mailing lists, and no one seems to have brought this up before; what are the possibilities of creating a FIFO pipe in /tmp/ such that messages could piped to the OSD; i.e. other applications could be configured to print notifications in the subtitle area. Even something silly like piping a 'biff' to the output or a transfer completion from another app. All mplayer would need to do is accept the pipe (i.e. /tmp/.mplayer-messages) and print it using the existing OSD methods. (I'm not implying that it's trivial to implement, just the scope of effort) Thanks, Aubin