With a compiled from SVN source the video in question now plays but the audio and video get horribly out of sync. I "know" they are in sync because the same file uploaded to YouTube plays in sync from there. Information about my new mplayer installation: michael@hive:~/Videos/sotm3$ mplayer -v MPlayer SVN-r29699-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 5 CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 545 Processor (Family: 16, Model: 4, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 27 extended cache-info: 33587520 Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNowExt: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSSE3: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowExt SSE SSE2 CMOV The video file information as reported by mediainfo: General Complete name : sotm_universe_benevolent.mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom File size : 35.6 MiB Duration : 58s 91ms Overall bit rate : 5 135 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Writing application : Lavf52.31.0 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Baseline@xxxx Format settings, CABAC : No Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 58s 91ms Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 5 002 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : MBAFF Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.181 Stream size : 34.6 MiB (97%) Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format version : Version 4 Format profile : LC Format settings, SBR : No Codec ID : 40 Duration : 58s 73ms Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 907 KiB (2%) Encoded date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 Tagged date : UTC 1970-01-01 00:00:00 -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be appropriate && Follow your curiosity http://www.jamhome.us/ The fortune cookie says: There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write. _______________________________________________ MPlayer-users mailing list MPlayer-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users