> I assume you did 'make distclean && ./onfigure'? > Carl Eugen Great thanks. Probably the problem was not doing make distclean. Tried doing this and got into a bit of trouble so re-downloaded with svn. Re compiled, now alsa works. So tried an mp4 file, the original problem. The sound was alright suggesting the original problem is solved. But as it happens there is no video: eric at fido:~/Politics/Chomsky$ artsdsp mplayer dn2010-0531.mp4 MPlayer SVN-r31361-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing dn2010-0531.mp4. libavformat file format detected. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x278e200]max_analyze_duration reached [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng VIDEO: [H264] 640x480 24bpp 29.970 fps 861.3 kbps (105.1 kbyte/s) Clip info: major_brand: M4V minor_version: 0 compatible_brands: isomavc1M4A M4V mp42 Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory [fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory VO: [v4l2] No such file or directory vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)! [cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [s3_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 95.8 kbit/6.24% (ratio: 11981->192000) Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio)) ========================================================================== AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [null] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12 A: 99.2 V: 99.2 A-V: -0.004 ct: 0.020 0/ 0 7% 0% 0.7% 0 0 Exiting... (Quit) Press any key to continue... Any suggestions very welcome.