Hi. I gbot mplayer and all appropriate stuff, followed the installation instructions posted here, but when I try to play an .asx file, I get the following error, ok, so the file I used was a .mid this time, but it's still the same, and it meant I could capture the output. I should say that mp3s etc all play fine, it just seems to be .asx files and streams. Cheers. CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron SF Spitfire (Type: 6, Stepping: 0) extended cpuid-level: 6 CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled with RUNTIME CPU Detection - warning, it's not optimal! To get best performance, recompile mplayer from sources with --disable-runtime-cpudetection Reading /home/toby/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 31 audio & 81 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/toby/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init error: No such device Using usleep() timing Input config file /home/toby/.mplayer/input.conf parsed : 50 binds Playing he.mid Can't open IFO file: No such file or directory Not an URL! -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html