Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless server running vdr-xineliboutput. ** I know there has been a tremendous amount of work from everyone in respect to Matrox TV-Out already, sorry to keep bugging you all ;-) ** -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m