I used the debian installer to install mplayer; I am trying to use it with streams as I don't have a dvd. But having read Johan's guide from several months ago, I am a bit confused. do I also need to download and install the other files in addition to what the debian installer does? strangely, the installer gave me no errors even though I didn't have xlib6g on my system. So maybe I will have to re-run the installer now that I have this on my system. obviously I still have some configuring to do or something, because when I tried http://acw.activate.net/kplu/kplu.asx which was asked about on another list, I got Playing mms://wmr02sea.activate.net/kplu Connecting to server wmr02sea.activate.net:80 ... Connecting to server wmr02sea.activate.net:80 ... Cache size set to 16 KBytes Connected to server: wmr02sea.activate.net Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Detected ASF file format! Detected audio codec: [divx] afm:4 (DivX audio (WMA)) Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=4) not available (enable it at compile time!) Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> nosound Audio: no sound!!! Video: no video!!! Exiting... (End of file) The debian mplayer installer page doesn't mention having to have other files, but it appears to me that this must be necessary. Should i just add in all the files listed in the previously posted guide or have there been changes in what is needed? Thanks. Cheryl