Update on mplayer situation. I looked through the documentation and it says that there's a problem with using the oss drivers with the program so I passed alsa5 option to see what I'd get and I don't get any audio nad I get yet another error. mplayer -vo null -ao alsa5 /dev/scd0 And this is what I get from the program. Playing /dev/scd0 Detected MPEG-PS file format! VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 10000.0 kbps (1250.0 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52 No accelerated IMDCT transform found AC3: 2.0 (stereo) 48000 Hz 192.0 kbit/s Using MMX optimized resampler AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 24000->192000 (192.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [null] 720x480 => 720x540 Mpeg PES Selected video codec: [mpegpes] vfm:mpegpes (Mpeg PES output (.mpg or Dxr3/DVB card)) ========================================================================== alsa-init: requested format: 48000 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)alsa-init: 1 soundcard(s) found, using: EMU10K1 alsa-init: error setting parameters: Invalid argument couldn't open/init audio device -> no sound Audio: no sound!!! Start playing... V: 9.2 640 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 0% MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_rtc Looks like the technology Gods are against me on this one. Hehe. Have never had any trouble with new hardware like I have with this dvd player and the one for the tv in the living room but that's for another list. Heh. Tommy
