Sid, Fantastic, thanks very much for your help! Tzap/xine and kaffiene worked fine - was glad to see kaffiene supported subtitles too which was a nice surprise. Strangely enough, mplayer now works with the command I originally tried, though very jerky and badly pixellated. *shrugs* dunno why it didn't work before. Thanks very much for your help - now to figure out why mythtv isn't playing the DVB streams... Cheers - Piers Sid Boyce wrote: > I went through a similar loop. For a quick test, something like this.... > tzap -r -c /channels.conf-dvbt-SuttonColdfield "BBC ONE" & > xine stdin://mpeg2 < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 > > For a better way, use kaffeine. Up till yesterday I used March 2005 cvs > version and yesterday upgraded to the latest cvs version which has a > smarter layout. kaffeine also has a scan feature which will present you > with a full list of stations so you can select which ones you need > permanently. > The 2.6.12-rc4 kernel is complete, you won't need any patches -- AT LAST!. > Regards > Sid.