If one produces a raw PCM dump of /dev/dsp such as $ cat /dev/dsp >streamfile The result is an unsigned 8-bit 8-KHZ audio dump captured in streamfile. If I cat streamfile >/dev/dsp, it plays so I know that works. Has anybody successfully played such an unsigned stream in mplayer? It would be nice to do that in order to use the arrow keys which let you skip forward or backward at will. A read of the man page says that u8 is one of the accepted formats so it looks like mplayer -quiet -format u8 streamfile should work but no luck. On the system in question, there is nothing broken as far as I can tell. mplayer works beautifully on Realaudio, WMA and gobs of other formats so I am either doing something wrong or it can't play a /dev/dsp dump. Thanks for suggestions. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users