BTW, I tried just pulling the USB stick out while mplayer is running. Strangely enough mplayer did not notice it gone and kept going for some 5 to 10 seconds. Probably buffering? The only sign about it is two lines in dmesg (other than the usual usb messages about device being unplug). [227690.953311] rtl2832: i2c rd failed=-19 reg=01 len=1 [227710.818089] usb 1-2: dvb_usbv2: streaming_ctrl() failed=-19 I also have quite a few : [224773.229293] DVB: adapter 0 frontend 0 frequency 2 out of range (174000000..862000000) This seems to come from running w_scan. The kernel seems happy while having the device physically pulled out. But the kernel module does not like to be unloaded (modprobe -r) while mplayer is running, so we need to fix that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html