Hi, i tried to convert a video of some minutes to PNG images: mplayer -vo png -noframedrop HDV0023.MP4 It seems that my PC is too slow (Quad Core Duo), at least mplayer says so. Is it possible that mplayer tries to keep the frame rate of the movie. That is not necessary for me, i don't care how much time it takes for mplayer to generate the PNGs. Also, is it possible that mplayer skips many steps in postprocessing the PNGs to keep the frame rate? I don't care how much time mplayer takes, i wan't the best quality PNGs that i can get. This is not the only problem, i get some kind of buffer overflow, seems unnecessary to me. Is there a way to tell mplayer to take all the time it needs, do all postprocessing and create high quality PNGs? Thanks for any hints, Torsten.