I saw you were talking about this in [MPlayer-cvslog], but it does not work for me: holden at rye:~/xiph/mplayer$ ./mplayer -v -user-agent Quicktime "http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov" MPlayer SVN-r30531-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3300+ (Family: 15, Model: 44, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 24 extended cache-info: 8421696 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 get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/codecs.conf' Reading /home/holden/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/holden/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Using built-in default codecs.conf. Configuration: --enable-gui --enable-menu CommandLine: '-v' '-user-agent' 'Quicktime' 'http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov' init_freetype Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay get_path('fonts') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/fonts' Using nanosleep() timing get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/input.conf' Parsing input config file /home/holden/.mplayer/input.conf Input config file /home/holden/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 90 binds Setting up LIRC support... get_path('menu.conf') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/menu.conf' [libmenu] got keybinding element 275 UP=>[menu up]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 274 DOWN=>[menu down]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 273 LEFT=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 272 RIGHT=>[menu right]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 13 ENTER=>[menu ok]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 263 ESC=>[menu cancel]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 259 HOME=>[menu home]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 260 END=>[menu end]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 261 PGUP=>[menu pageup]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 262 PGDWN=>[menu pagedown]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 387 JOY_UP=>[menu up]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 386 JOY_DOWN=>[menu down]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 385 JOY_LEFT=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 384 JOY_RIGHT=>[menu right]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 404 JOY_BTN0=>[menu ok]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 405 JOY_BTN1=>[menu cancel]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1288 AR_VUP=>[menu up]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1289 AR_VDOWN=>[menu down]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1284 AR_PREV=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1282 AR_NEXT=>[menu right]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1280 AR_PLAY=>[menu ok]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1286 AR_MENU=>[menu cancel]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1285 AR_PREV_HOLD=>[menu home]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1283 AR_NEXT_HOLD=>[menu end]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 512 MOUSE_BTN0=>[menu click]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 514 MOUSE_BTN2=>[menu cancel]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1284 AR_PREV=>[menu pageup]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1282 AR_NEXT=>[menu pagedown]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 256 BS=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1284 AR_PREV=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1282 AR_NEXT=>[menu right]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1284 AR_PREV=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1282 AR_NEXT=>[menu right]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1285 AR_PREV_HOLD=>[menu left]. [libmenu] got keybinding element 1283 AR_NEXT_HOLD=>[menu right]. Menu initialized: /home/holden/.mplayer/menu.conf get_path('redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov.conf') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov.conf' Playing http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov. get_path('sub/') -> '/home/holden/.mplayer/sub/' Filename for url is now http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov Filename for url is now http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov Resolving movies.apple.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server movies.apple.com[213.254.212.103]: 80... --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [HTTP/1.0] http minor version: [0] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [87] Fields: 0 - Content-Length: 87 1 - Content-Type: video/quicktime 2 - Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) 3 - Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:00:42 GMT 4 - ETag: "57-47e3413c63a80" 5 - Cache-Control: max-age=3552 6 - Expires: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:22:05 GMT 7 - Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:22:53 GMT 8 - Connection: close --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- Content-Length: [87] Content-Type: [video/quicktime] Cache size set to 320 KBytes STREAM: [null] http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/redriding/redriding-clip1974_h.320.mov STREAM: Description: http streaming STREAM: Author: Bertrand, Albeau, Reimar Doeffinger, Arpi? STREAM: Comment: plain http CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 87 pre:65536 eof:1 Cache fill: 0.03% (87 bytes) LAVF_check: QuickTime/MPEG-4/Motion JPEG 2000 format libavformat file format detected. cache_stream_seek: WARNING! Can't seek to 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFEF ! [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x15dc9d0]moov atom not found LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not initialized.. Exiting... (End of file) Adding the option "-demuxer mov" reverts to the old behaviour and plays the clip. Giorgio Vazzana