I know this seems like a dump question, but bear with me ... CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Step CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Disk is a WD Scorpio Black Playing MPEG2; video and audio are at least HD TV quality. Output is to HDMI. "Most common" problem is broken/buggy audio driver? I'm running alsa 1.0.19 -- does that qualify? _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users