Hi Someone very kindly reminded me that mplayer would enable me to play and record the audio from a DVD and proffered this command: mplayer -quiet -vo null -dvd-Device /dev/hdc dvd://1 However, it's very choppy and quiet. All evening I've been attempting to find the right switch to fix it. I thought it would require one of the resample switches -ac -av -r but my head is spinning. Can anyone help? Thanks. -- Gena http://www.ready2golinux.com M0EBP