I had installed mplayer (I think it may have been an unofficial .deb package) on my debian system and it works fine, though I don't seem to have a codecs directory and wonder if I should add this. However, I installed mplayer1.0pre4 on my fedora system; it works on some urls just fine. But on some urls, I get the following (Had ro run it with -v to get it): vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. Am I missing something I should have done or something that should be in the mplayerconf. One station on which it is doing this is: http://skylight.implex.net/WNWCFM.asx this works fine on my debian box. Thanks. -- Cheryl "Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."