hi! I've installed mplayer and mencoder on lenny and tried playing an .avi video but each time I tried to fast-forward it, the video breaks and crashes when I try to play it again. cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.3 dpkg -l mencoder Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii mencoder 1:1.0.rc2svn20 MPlayer's Movie Encoder dpkg -l mplayer Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii mplayer 1:1.0.rc2svn20 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux Any help will be appreciated. Regards, Oliver