Thanks for your advice, this solved the problem. What would you recommend how to transfer the video directly to the TV out of my Radeon 9250 card without X ? Will xine-plugin be included in the debian distribution ? Concerning my version vdr-1.4.4 from patch-description I think I should still use the Patches vdr-1.3.18-dvbspu.patch.gz vdr-1.3.18-replay.patch.gz vdr-1.2.6-dvbplayer5.patch is this ok ? Cheers H.Braun