Hi, Thanks for giving me the links for rpm's to xine. I download them all and used rpm -Uvh *.rpm to install them, then I executed: ldconfig did ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd and tried my "Matrix" DVD and... No go :( so I downloaded d4d and d5d and install it and still no go. When I press "Play" my cdorm/cd-RW/dvd starts to turn, then stops, and then I get the massage: xine engine error there is no input plugin available to handle "dvd://VTS_01_0.VOB'. Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source does not exist. After pressing more I get Cannot find input plugin for this MRL and that it is "unable to find >VTS_01_0.VOB< on dvd "Sorry, xine doesn't play encrypted files. The legal ... not provide such code. --------------------- 2nd problem: Before I installed RPM's I tried to compile xine, and got as far as compilation and installing of the libraries. Now when I did xine-check I get: . . [ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH [ hint ] several instances of xine-config found in your PATH xine-config executables have been found in these places: /usr/local/bin/xine-config /usr/bin/xine-config This probably means you have several versions of xine-lib installed. It's probably best to uninstall all unused xine-libs. Further tests will use /usr/local/bin/xine-config. press <enter> to continue... . . [ good ] found logo in /usr/local/share/xine/skins [OUCH!!] There are no skins. Looks like the skins haven't been installd in /usr/local/share/xine/skins. You should reinstall xine-ui, as it won't run without any skins... press <enter> to continue... . . [ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/sr0 [ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/sr0 [ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI. This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation. If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this. However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution) press <enter> to continue... [ hint ] Your X server doesn't support YUV overlays. That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your X server will help here. If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ press <enter> to continue... [ hint ] Your X server doesn't support packed YUV overlays. That means xine will have to to color space transformation and scaling in software, which is quite CPU intensive. Maybe upgrading your X server will help here. If you have an ATI card, you'll find accelerated X servers on http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ press <enter> to continue... [ hint ] Your X server doesn't have any XVideo support... XVideo is an X server extension introduced by XFree86 4.x. This extension provides access to hardware accelerated color space conversion and scaling, which gives a great performance boost. If you have a fast (>1GHz) machine, you may be able to watch all kinds of video, anyway. You will waste lots of CPU cycles, though... press <enter> to continue... Note: My computer (thinkpad A21e) is indeed ATAPI... Any idea how I could get rid of one of the libraries and fix the other problems.... Thank you for your previous help, and please help me some more, Wojtek