> If you read the comments in device.h, I wouldn't blame Klaus for > anything arising from this playmode. Hello, sorry, i have only ask him (not only him). Nice, that you answer. I have not seen it. Was only because I have not know, what i am to looking for, i am not blind and sometimes i read header files. Can you tell me, why request will 'only' fail, when vs.h = 240? On vs.h = 480 or if mplayer playing PAL the file handles will not be released? Naturally i have now take a look in mplayer-plugin, but i have see only ePlayMode "pmExtern_THIS_SHOULD_BE_AVOIDED". What is the difference? I want only get the rich eVideoSystem from vdr without a patch and not implement all for myself. On my tests for status-requests this works fine with "RD"-handles for video instead of "RDWR"-handles, it maybe a way. (But for fd_audio only "RD"-handle will not work in my tests) Frank